Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Milltown (coonagh By., Grean Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (coonagh By., Grean Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53153, -8.40975
- SMR number
- LI024-284----
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, cut by land drains and watercourses, 90m NE of a townland boundary with Kildromin, which also marks a parish boundary with Kilteely. Within the NW quadrant of a rectangular-shaped enclosure (LI024-285----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 284: AP 4/3632). Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 14m) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 284.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 October 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/23 taken 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.