Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52550, -8.62925
- SMR number
- LI031-028----
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 pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 490m E of a townland boundary with Lacka. Enclosures (LI031-026/027----) lie 90m and 125m to SW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument is visible on 1:5,000 Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photograph (No. 2497) as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. 37m) defined by an inner fosse, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and BGE aerial photo shown as the north most monument in a line of three monuments.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.