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
- 52.40721, -8.38258
- SMR number
- LI049-226----
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 pasture 160m N of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown. A group of 3 barrows (LI049-029002/04-) lies 105m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Possible barrow listed as ‘Mitchelstowndown East 8’ by Grogan (1989, 239). Visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 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.
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