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
- 52.43678, -8.50586
- SMR number
- LI040-065001-
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 50m N of the townland boundary with Balline. One of three possible ditch-barrows (LI040-065001/003-) located in close proximity. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs taken 03/11/1984 (1:5,000 No. 2555). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13. A clearing in the vegetation visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 may indicate feature identified on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
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