Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Coolbreedeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbreedeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.66939, -8.44652
- SMR number
- LI006-028----
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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 flat pasture 1.5km W of the Killeenagarriff River. Possible ringfort (LI006-029----) located 350m to the SE. The description is based upon its depiction on the 1897 OS 25-inch map and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. A raised circular-shaped area (internal dims. c. 26m W) surrounded by an external fosse (c. 5m W). The enclosure appears to have further concentric outer ditches suggesting that it may have been a bivallate or even a trivallate enclosure that could have been up to 60m in diameter. Similar multivallate enclosures, such as Rathanny (LI040-026001-) in Co. Limerick has been attributed to the Bronze Age and is considered as a barrow or burial mound. This monument may be similar to a triple-ditched barrow (LI048-092----) in the townland of Ballyroe Lower.
See attached Google Earth orthophotos
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.