Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballintober, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- 1244
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cairn, Hachured, 1243 (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36338, -8.42186
- SMR number
- LI048-068----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 upland area at the S edge of a conifer plantation , immediately W of the townland boundary with Killeen. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a trigonometrical station. Annotated ‘Carn’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a roughly circular-shaped mound marking a spot height of 1243ft (378m). Faint trace of cairn visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 2 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.