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Barrow - ditch barrow

Crean (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Crean, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crean (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49781, -8.60445
SMR number
LI031-105----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture on a gentle N-facing slope with good views from SW-NW. Enclosure (LI031-106----) located 80m to SE, enclosure (LI031-108----) 180m to NE. Earthwork (Site No. 031186) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2506) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a circular-shaped area (dims. 9m NW-SE; 8m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 0.6m; H 0.15m). Interior level and covered in nettles. Field boundary running NW-SE abuts to NE. Faint trace of circular-shaped cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006.

See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (BDE 1/50000 2506), ASI survey photographs and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 26 March 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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