Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Bottomstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bottomstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44343, -8.47808
- SMR number
- LI040-164001-
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, 70m NW of a possible barrow (LI040-164002-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Circular cropmark identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 69) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Google Earth orthoimage dated 5/4/2006. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotographs.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.