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Barrow - unclassified

Glenlary, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Glenlary, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glenlary
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39671, -8.40153
SMR number
LI049-267----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture 10m W of the townland boundary with Cloghast. Enclosure (LI049-097----) lies 100m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. The monument is visible as a possible levelled bivallate earthwork on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (342) 2) dated 05-01-2003 where it is intersected at N by a field boundary running E-W. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a fosse with an outer bank from NE-SE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 26/04/2015. Visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021.

See oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (342) 2) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 5 October 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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