Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43014, -8.45767
- SMR number
- LI040-078027-
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 425m NE of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Ballinvana. Elton barrow cemetery first identified in 1982 by the Archaeology Department of UCC who carried out a Route Selection Study report for Bórd Gáis Éireann in consultation with ARUP Pipeline Engineering (Woodman 1983). One of 37 possible barrows (LI040-078002/035-/-037/039-) recorded within an area measuring 230m N-S x 300m E-W. Listed by the Discovery Programme as a potential barrow (Site No. 27) on examination of gas pipeline aerial images and Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 2123). No surface remains visible of possible barrow visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 June 2021
References
Woodman, P.C. 1983 Bórd Gáis Éireann, Curraleigh West-Limerick Gas Pipeline, Report on Archaeological Investigation. Unpublished report compiled on behalf of ARUP Pipeline Engineering. Cork. Department of Archaeology, University College, Cork.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.