Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41505, -8.40567
- SMR number
- LI049-004----
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, a possible ditch-barrow (LI041-005----) lies 37m to the NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible ditch-barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2573) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of ring-ditch visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.