Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
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
- 52.44140, -8.49309
- SMR number
- LI040-071001-
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 50m SW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Gormanstown. One of a group of three possible barrows (LI040-071001/003-) with a fourth (LI040-071004-) located 160m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a ring- barrow (site No. 040210) during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2558) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos or Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13.
See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 31 May 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.