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Barrow - unclassified

Bohercarron, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Bohercarron, 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
Bohercarron
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.43328, -8.31689
SMR number
LI041-065----

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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 reclaimed pasture, 75m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballywire and the County boundary with Tipperary. Possible barrow (LI041-064----) lies 15m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible barrow identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 18.02; AP 5/2133). No surface remains visible 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

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

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