Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Mitchelstowndown West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41216, -8.41021
- SMR number
- LI049-001004-
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 wet pasture 35m S of the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown North. One of seven possible barrows (LI049-001001/007-) within an area measuring c. 100m N-S x c. 120m E-W. A barrow cemetery containing 36 possible barrows (LI049-001008/041-/043/044-) lies 230m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573; Site No. 282) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.