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Barrow - ditch barrow

Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Ballinstona North, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinstona North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44667, -8.54532
SMR number
LI040-212003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, 30m SE of townland boundary with Goat Island and 750m SE of Greenpark House. In the centre of a large enclosure (LI040-212005-), possible conjoined barrows (LI040-212001/002-) lie 23m to the W and a possible ditch barrow (LI040-212004-) lies 35m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as circular cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 139.03; AP 5/2109). Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthophoto dated 04/04/2013.

See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 139.03 and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 30 June 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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