Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
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
- 52.49827, -8.62081
- SMR number
- LI031-146----
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 100m N of enclosure (LI031-097---) and 115m to NE of enclosure (LI031-144----). Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified as a sub-rectangular shaped earthwork from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 46) of the region taken on 03/11/1984 associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 13m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 8 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.