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Barrow - ditch barrow

Mitchelstowndown West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Mitchelstowndown West, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mitchelstowndown West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41180, -8.40605
SMR number
LI049-001012-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 reclaimed pasture 125m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown North. One of 36 possible barrows (LI049-001008/041/043/044-) within an area measuring c. 250m N-S x c. 450m E-W. A group of seven possible barrows (LI049-001001/007-) lies 215m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a barrow on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573; Site No. 291) taken 03/11/1984. Possibly visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021.

See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 15 September 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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