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Barrow - ring-barrow

Cloghaviller, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Cloghaviller, 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
Cloghaviller
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53223, -8.45086
SMR number
LI023-099003-

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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

In wet, low-lying pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Enclosure (LI023-099001/005-) lie 80m to SW and 110m to WNW, respectively and ring-barrows (LI023-099002/--4-) lie 100m to SW and 200m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. This monument is an additional part of an earthwork complex described by O’Kelly as following: 'A Complex of 2 earthworks of Type A and 3 ring-barrows (O’Kelly 1943, 172). Monument is not visible on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 130.1). Monument is visible as a faint, roughly oval-shaped cropmark (30m E-W; 23m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017.

See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 130.1 and Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 31August 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.

Nearby in the register

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

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