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
- 52.44085, -8.49039
- SMR number
- LI040-071004-
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 40m S of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Gormanstown. Possible barrows (LI040-071001/003-) lie c. 170m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2558) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Listed by Grogan (1989, 231) as 'Gormanstown 10' and described as 'no surface trace of a ring-barrow in this position'. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 31 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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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.