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Barrow - ditch barrow

Carrigeen (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Carrigeen (smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48176, -8.60416
SMR number
LI031-151002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 reclaimed wet pasture 240m NW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Rathcannon. A conifer plantation lies 70m to S. Possible barrow (LI031- 151001-) lies 80m to NW. Identified from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 48) of the region taken 03/11/1984 associated with the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a circular cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2010 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 16 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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