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
- 52.41737, -8.32992
- SMR number
- LI041-032013-
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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, in NE quadrant of a group of fourteen barrows (LI041-032001/013-). Enclosure (LI041-031----) lies 285m to the SW and a barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/026-) lies to the S and SSW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified in 1936 during a survey of the area undertaken by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 175). Monument visible as a circular cropmark ( diam. c. 5m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached plan of survey from Ó Ríordáin (1936) and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 26 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.
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