Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gibbonstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gibbonstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41886, -8.51486
- SMR number
- LI040-281----
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 110m SE of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Bulgaden Eady. Possible barrow (LI040-280----) lies 50m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 7m) defined by a ditch on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. Faint traces of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.