Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Knocklary, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocklary
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39894, -8.39348
- SMR number
- LI049-270----
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 wet pasture 80m W of a watercourse and 75m E of the townland boundary with Cloghast. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark on oblique aerial photography as a possible ditch-barrow. Visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 8m) on oblique aerial image (ASIAP). No surface remains visible on Google earth orthoimages
See attached oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimage
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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.