Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Baggotstown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baggotstown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46971, -8.48476
- SMR number
- LI040-189003-
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 E of the townland boundary with Knockainey. One of a group of 3 possible ditch-barrows, (LI040-189001/002-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 56; AP 5/2072). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage take between 2011-13. Possible trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 4m) intersected at E by a trackway running N-S, on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 56 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 July 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.