Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Srahane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Srahane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62172, -8.51497
- SMR number
- LI014-172----
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 reclaimed grassland, with stream marking townland boundary with Srahane West immediately to E. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 26m; ext. diam. 53m) defined by a scarp and wide fosse or moat (approx. Wth 13m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Outline of monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. On this image the fosse appears to be waterlogged with evidence of rushes in the wet fosse or moat. The location on wet marshy land adjacent to a stream with wide waterlogged fosse suggests a prehistoric ritual site in the barrow or henge tradition rather than that of a medieval settlement or ringfort. Cropmarks of old watercourse is visible to N of monument with channels feeding from old stream into fosse or moat of the monument which is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 05/04/2006, 25/03/2017 and 06/02/2018.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.