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
- 52.56083, -8.30495
- SMR number
- LI024-293----
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
On a N-facing slope, in rough, wet pasture, 120m S of the Reask River, which also marks a townland boundary with Brackyle. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. One of two satellite ring-barrows (LI024-292/293----) which are situated 5m to N of a large barrow (LI024-058001-). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a low profile circular-shaped area (2.2m NE-SW; 1.5m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.5-1.6m; H 0.15-0.35m) and fosse (Wth 3.65-5.1m; D 0.18-0.45m) which are traceable from NW-N-E-SE. A land drain running NNE-SSW extends from the fosse at NNE. Monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.