Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ballyfroota, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfroota
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40075, -8.37040
- SMR number
- LI049-216----
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 improved, wet, pasture immediately W of a watercourse. Cairn (LI049-213----) lies 135m to SW and possible barrow (LI049-215----) 115m to NW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible barrow listed as ‘Ballyfroota 3’ by Grogan (1989, 215). Possible outline of ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 17 October 2021
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.