Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
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
- 52.44087, -8.52047
- SMR number
- LI040-061013-
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, 60m SE of cluster of barrows (LI040-061007-/009-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible barrow identified by Grogan (1989, 218) as 'Ballynamona 10’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of monument visible as circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and portion of RMP map showing location of barrow
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 April 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.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.