Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballyvulhane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvulhane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45784, -8.52741
- SMR number
- LI040-155----
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 wet pasture, a possible enclosure (LI040-151----) lies 130m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 61) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) in a field with drainage channels and cultivation ridges running E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph or Digital Globe orthoimage.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.