Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Uregare Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Uregare Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44184, -8.52216
- SMR number
- LI040-061006-
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 pasture, 120m SW of townland boundary with Ballincolloo. Located within a field system (LI040-061001-) and barrows (LI040-061006/009) lie 35m to the SW . Not marked on OSi historic maps. Small circular cropmark (Site No. 040231) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2553) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Monument visible as small circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2553) and Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.