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Barrow - mound barrow

Knockatancashlane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - mound barrow, Knockatancashlane, 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
Knockatancashlane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.60569, -8.46877
SMR number
LI014-162----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

One of a cluster of 6 barrows (LI014-163/164/155001/155002/156----) in wetland, located to the immediate SE of large barrow (LI014-155001----). Identified as a possible mound barrow (diam. 11.5m; H 1m) by Melanie McQuaid, archaeologist, Forestry Service, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in 2016 during site inspection of drains and removal of forestry saplings. Described in 2016 as following; ‘The mound has been cut by one forest drain and at the time of inspection no archaeological material was evident in the drain face or the mounds created from the excavated soil’ (McQuade 2016). The monument is visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and the Google Earth image taken in 2006 and 2018.

See attached Google earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 3 July 2020

References

McQuade, M. 2016 Unpublished report - Forestry Plantation in the townland of Knockatancashlane, Co. Limerick. Forestry Service Inspectorate, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Nearby in the register

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

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