Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Carrigeen (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48561, -8.59321
- SMR number
- LI031-127----
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 improved pasture 75m S of R516 that marks the townland boundary with Camas. Not depicted on any OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a ring-barrow by Grogan (1989, 222) and labelled in his thesis as 'Carrigeen 1'. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.