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
- 52.44680, -8.53416
- SMR number
- LI040-049003-
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 reclaimed wet pasture, in the NE of a group of barrows (LI040-049001-/002-; LI040-049004-/011-), an enclosure (LI040-049008-) lies 95m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible ring-barrow listed by Grogan (1989, 250) as 'Tankardstown 8'. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. No visible remains on Google Earth orthoimages. May be a duplicate site with ditch barrow (LI040-049005-) located 10m to N.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
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