Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Caherline, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherline
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55998, -8.46551
- SMR number
- LI023-180001-
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
On low-lying wet pasture, shaped by flood waters and cut by land drains and watercourses. Ring-barrow (LI023-180002-) lies 45m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 243: AP 4/3689). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 243.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.