Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballycahill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45935, -8.45313
- SMR number
- LI040-270002-
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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 the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Rathanny. One of a group of five possible ditch-barrows (LI040-270001/003/005-). An inland promontory fort (LI040-271001-) lies 15m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 138.02, AP 5/2101) as a circular cropmark of possible barrow. Faint trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 138.02, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 24, 17) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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