Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Coolnashamroge, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnashamroge
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54482, -8.42326
- SMR number
- LI023-285----
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 low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses and which is adjacent to W of a linear land drain running N-S. Within a large complex of ring-barrows, where ring-barrows (LI023-283/-282----) lie 3m to N and 7m to NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by oblique aerial photography (McCloud AF 16). Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and McCloud aerial survey image labelled AF 16.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 September 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.