Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Tankardstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44534, -8.53413
- SMR number
- LI040-049002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough wet pasture, 85m W of townland boundary with Ballybeg, W of a group of barrows (LI040-049001; LI040-049003-/007-; LI040-049009-/011-) and enclosure (LI040-049008-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 040256) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2550) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline as a small circular cropmark. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (No. 040256) and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.