Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Cross (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56044, -8.30868
- SMR number
- LI024-171005-
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 pasture, on N-facing slope, 92m SE of Reask River which marks townland boundary with Brackyle and 123m E of townland boundary with Knockballyfookeen. A possible enclosure (LI024-170----) lies 70m to NE, three barrows (LI024-058001-; LI024-292/293-----), enclosure (LI024-058004-) and earthwork (LI024-058002-) lie 247m to SE. Located SE in a cluster of five ring-barrows (LI024-171001/004-). Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106 (5); AP 4/3676) as a small circular cropmark of a possible ring-barrow. Faint trace of monument visible on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-12, not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 106(5)
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 July 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.