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
- 52.40818, -8.39292
- SMR number
- LI049-012----
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 80m W of the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown East. Possible barrow (LI049-015----) lies 200m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2577) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (2577) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.