Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Fantstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fantstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40676, -8.51601
- SMR number
- LI048-103----
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 pasture 70m S of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Gibbonstown. Possible ditch-barrow (LI048-090----) lies 120m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Cropmark identified by ASI from examination of Google Earth aerial photographs. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 7m) on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/03/2018 where it is intersected at E by field drain running N-S. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 13/08/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 6 September 2021
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