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Barrow - ring-barrow

Coologe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Coologe, 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
Coologe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54212, -8.36899
SMR number
LI024-189001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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

In pasture 100m N of public road and 300m S of the Glenatrahaun Stream that marks the boundary with Ballynagally. Ring-barrow (LI024-226----) located 185m to NW. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 33(01); AP 4/3668) as a circular shaped cropmark. Outline of monument visible as a circular shaped area (approx. diam. 7.5m) defined by a ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-3013 and Global Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 33(01).

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 27 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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