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Barrow - embanked barrow

Cloghaderreen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - embanked barrow, Cloghaderreen, 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
Cloghaderreen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.53461, -8.35077
SMR number
LI024-073----

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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

On SE-facing slope, in pasture. A barrow (LI024-197----) lies 150m to SW and two barrows (LI024-219-/-220----) lie 170m to SE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (19m N-S x 17m E-W) defined by the intermittent remains of a bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.55m) visible from NW-NNW-N, from ENE-E-S-SSW and at WSW, elsewhere reduced to a scarp. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped partially scrub covered earthwork on ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP 310, 37) taken 13/09/2002. Outline of degraded monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 July 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

Nearby in the register

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

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