Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballynamona (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41328, -8.33411
- SMR number
- LI049-072015-
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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 120m E of a stream and 50m W of the townland boundary with Lissard. One of 6 barrows (LI049-072010/015-) in a field to E of drainage ditch that makes up a barrow cemetery concentrated in an area measuring 100m N-S x 115m E-W. Barrow cemetery (LI049-072001/009-) lies 200m to W and enclosure (LI049-072016-) lies to immediate S. Three of the 6 barrows (LI049-072010/015-) in this cemetery were excavated in 1935 by S. P. Ó Ríordáin (1936, 176-177) the results of which were described as follows; ‘In 1935 further excavations were conducted on a total of twenty of these monuments. The results were frankly disappointing as no unmistakable burial was found in any of the barrows excavated’ (Ó Ríordáin 1936, 177). This site, which was excavated, is located in S quadrant of the field 25m to the NE of the excavated barrow (LI049-072014-). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached location map taken from Ó Ríordáin and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 September 2021
References
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.