Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballinscaula, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinscaula
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42397, -8.48932
- SMR number
- LI040-282----
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 230m W of the townland boundary with Stephenstown. Possible barrow (LI040-096----) lies 115m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as circular cropmark defined by vegetation and intersected at W by a field boundary running N-S on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 304/11 on 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.