Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gormanstown (phillips), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown (phillips)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44243, -8.50897
- SMR number
- LI040-063002-
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 45m E of a farm access road. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential ring-barrow on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000, 2553 Site No. 040291) taken 03/11/1984. Listed by Grogan (1989, Vol. 2, 232) as Gormanstown (Phillips) 4. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark truncated at NW by a linear field drain running NE-SW on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 26 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.
Nearby in the register
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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