Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
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
- 52.40993, -8.38739
- SMR number
- LI049-241001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 30m S of a local road that marks the townland boundary with Raheennamadra. Possible barrow (LI049-241002-) lies 20m to the E. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified as a possible ring barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578) taken 03/11/1984. Possible barrow listed as ‘Mitchelstowndown East 1’ by Grogan (1989, 239). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 20 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.