Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Bohercarron, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bohercarron
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43341, -8.31703
- SMR number
- LI041-064----
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, 95m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballywire and the County boundary with Tipperary. Possible barrow (LI041-065----) lies 15m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible barrow identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 18.01; AP 5/2133). Faint trace of circular-shaped cropmark visible to S of a field drain running NE-SW on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.