Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballynahinch, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahinch
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41712, -8.42405
- SMR number
- LI040-127002-
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 a clearance in centre of modern coniferous plantation, a possible barrow (LI040-127001-) lies 20m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible ring-barrow listed by Grogan (1989, 216) as ‘Ballynahinch 6’. Possible trace of monument visible as circular cropmark (diam. c. 4m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. No surface remains visible on the Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 June 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
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.