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
- 52.43833, -8.50504
- SMR number
- LI040-064----
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 wet pasture 75m W of a watercourse. Possible barrows (LI040-065001/003-) lie 200m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 108; AP 5/2118) as an earthwork complex. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2020.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph (108) and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.