What is recorded here
Barrow is a ditch barrow hidden in wet pasture beside the Morningstar River in County Limerick. It never appeared on old maps, but aerial photography revealed a fifteen-metre circular mark in 1986. A standing stone waits forty metres away, while conifers crowd the south edge. The barrow has resisted human memory, emerging only through shadow and sky.
In wet pasture on the N bank of the Morningstar River that lies 30m to SE which marks the townland boundary with Rathcannon. A conifer plantation is located to immediate S. Standing stone (LI031-151006-) lies 40m to SE. Not depicted on any OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 49; AP 5/2062) as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 15m) in the SE corner of field. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013 as a circular depression with traces of outer fosse visible from W-N-NE and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 as a faint cropmark.
See attached Bruff aerial survey image and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 2 April 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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