Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gormanstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44627, -8.49588
- SMR number
- LI040-216002-
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 pasture, 50m S of townland boundary with Baggotstown West and 125m NE of the Morningstar River. A possible ditch-barrow (LI040-216001-) lies 20m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 88; AP 5/2105). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 88 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 2 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.