Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Mitchelstowndown West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.40737, -8.39900
- SMR number
- LI049-008----
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 immediately N of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Glenlary. A possible ditch-barrow (LI049-233----) lies 90m to the NW. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a scarp with fosse from SW-N-S. Truncated at S by the Morningstar River running NW-SE. Faint outline of partial cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint partial cropmark on Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.