Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Coolfune, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolfune
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51876, -8.58995
- SMR number
- LI031-201----
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
On flat pasture 240m S of the townland boundary with Glenogra. Moated site (LI031-042----) 360m to ESE and enclosure (LI031-202---) 60m to SSW. The site is not depicted on OSi historic maps. The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 65: AP 4/3598) as a ring-barrow (ext. dims. c. 6m). The ring barrow is not identifiable on Google Earth orthoimages including the most recent taken 25/03/2017 and 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 65 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 19 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.