Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gormanstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44191, -8.51533
- SMR number
- LI040-061021-
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 90m W of townland boundary with Gormanstown (Phillips). One of 6 possible barrows (LI040-061015/019-/ LI040-06021-) concentrated in an area measuring 175m NS x 300m E-W in the N quadrant of the townland. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential site (site No. 040223) during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2554) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Faint cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/09/2019.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.