Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Caherelly East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherelly East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54609, -8.49454
- SMR number
- LI023-245----
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 flat pasture 1km NE of the Camoge River. The townland boundary with Knockcorragh is 45m to S. The church and graveyard at Caherelly (LI023-085001/2-) is 320m to WSW. A mound (LI023-208----) lies 200m to NE, ring-barrows (LI023-216001/3-) 150m to E and an enclosure (LI023-217----) 150m to S. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps or visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 271; AP 4/3658) as a ring-barrow. The site of the monument is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 271 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 1 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.