Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41579, -8.33266
- SMR number
- LI041-032001-
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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 75m E of townland boundary with Ballynamona. One of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/013-). Enclosure (LI041-031----) lies 45m to the SW and a barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/026-) lies immediately to S and SSW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 1936 during a survey of the area undertaken by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 175). Earthwork visible as a raised circulars-shaped platform (diam. c. 15m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached plan of survey from Ó Ríordáin (1936) and Google earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 July 2021
ASIAP 5 aerial photographs LI041-032001-_03 to _08 attached apply to all fourteen barrows mentioned above.
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.