Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
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
- 52.40769, -8.51895
- SMR number
- LI048-091----
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 50m S of a railway track and c. 30m N of six possible barrows (LI048-085/090----). Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Identified as a possible ring-ditch (diam. c. 6m) 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: 4 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.