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Barrow - ring-barrow

Carrigeen (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Carrigeen, 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
Carrigeen (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48276, -8.60339
SMR number
LI031-151004-

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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 wet pasture 270m NW of the Morningstar River that marks the townland boundary with Rathcannon. A conifer plantation is located 185m to S. Possible barrow (LI031- 151003-) lies 15m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 48) of the region taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.

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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