Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40970, -8.38560
- SMR number
- LI049-021----
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, 75m S of townland boundary with Raheennamadra, barrows (LI049-241001/002- and LI049-021----) lie 50m and 11m to the NW respectively. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site immediately E of a linear cropmark running N-S on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578, Site 255) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of circular-shaped cropmark visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.