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Barrow - mound barrow

Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Lissard, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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