Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 52.41561, -8.33173
- SMR number
- LI041-032003-
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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, one of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/014-), N of a barrow cemetery (LI049-072001-026-; LI041-033----), an enclosure (LI041-031----) lies c. 90m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 1936 by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 175) as one of numerous barrows surveyed in the area, immediately N of a post-1700 field boundary. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached plan of survey from Ó Ríordáin (1936).
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 July 2021
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.