Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinstona North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44559, -8.54278
- SMR number
- LI040-211----
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, 15m N of townland boundary with Ballybeg. A large enclosure (LI040-212005-) and a cluster of barrows (LI040-212001-/003-), lie 165m to the NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 74; AP 5/2109). Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) intersected at SE and E by a linear cropmark running N-S on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages dated 16/03/2016 and 01/04/2021.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 74 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 29 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.