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
- 52.44829, -8.52681
- SMR number
- LI040-055006-
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 reclaimed pasture, one of a group of barrows (LI040-055001/005-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 80.1; AP 5/2108) as a small circular cropmark of a possible ditch barrow. Also visible on aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2552) taken 03/11/1984 as part of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Faint trace of monument visible as circular cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photographs from (Bruff 80; AP 5/2018), Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2552) and Google Earth orthoimages 29/03/2002.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 30 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 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.