Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Cahirguillamore (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahirguillamore (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50903, -8.58317
- SMR number
- LI031-041024-
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 325m E of townland boundary with Killorath, immediately SW of possible ditch-barrow (LI031-041025-) and 120m NE of ditch-barrow (LI031-041023-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 68.01; AP4/3598) as a circular-shaped cropmark. Faint outline visible as a small circular shaped ring-ditch on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph labelled Bruff 68.01 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 31 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.