Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Gormanstown (grady), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown (grady)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43427, -8.49440
- SMR number
- LI040-070004-
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 30m E of a local road. One of 13 possible barrows (LI040-070001/013-) recorded within an area measuring 200m N-S x 250m E-W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Discovery Programme as a potential barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2557; Site No. 4) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 10m) truncated by a field drain running NE-SW on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.