Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43432, -8.43909
- SMR number
- LI040-229026-
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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 wet pasture, on a low ridge 125m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Knocklong West. One of 28 barrows which make up the Elton barrow cemetery (LI040-229002/029-) recorded within a single field (Doody 1999, 97-8). Listed by the Discovery Programme as a potential barrow (Site No. 26) on examination of Bruff aerial photographic survey. Sixteen barrows clearly visible on a Topographic Survey of this field undertaken by the Discovery Programme (The Discovery Programme, “Topographic survey of Elton, County Limerick.,” accessed June 3 2021, http://discoveryprogrammeimages.locloudhosting.net/items/show/2868).
Twenty-two barrows were identified on a Magnetometry Survey of the same field carried out by the Discovery Programme (The Discovery Programme, “Magnetometry survey of Elton, County Limerick.,” accessed June 3, 2021, http://discoveryprogrammeimages.locloudhosting.net/items/show/2869).
Faint cropmark of possible barrow visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph (Site No. 26), Google Earth orthoimages, topographic survey and Digital Terrain Model of Elton barrow cemetery by the Discovery Programme.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 June 2021
References
Doody, M. 1999 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Reports 5, 97-100.
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