Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Cahirguillamore (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahirguillamore (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50828, -8.58452
- SMR number
- LI031-041023-
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 250m E of townland boundary with Killorath, 135m SW of ditch-barrows (LI031-041024/025-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 40; AP4/3598) as a circular-shaped cropmark. Monument visible as a circular shaped cropmark (diam. c. 11m) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of ring-ditch clearly visible on Google earth orthoimages dated 04/04/2013 and 16/03/2016.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph labelled Bruff 40 and Google earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 31 March 2021
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.