Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gibbonstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gibbonstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40743, -8.51894
- SMR number
- LI048-088----
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 160m N of a Stream that marks the townland boundary with Fantstown and 50m S of a railway track. One of six possible barrows (LI048-085/-090----) concentrated in an area measuring 175m X 100m in the S of the townland. Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Identified as a possible barrow on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/01/2003. Visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 8m) on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 3 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.