Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Crean (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.