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Barrow - ring-barrow

Coolalough, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Coolalough, 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
Coolalough
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47400, -8.42196
SMR number
LI032-153001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 improved pasture which is liable to floods, 40m S of a farm trackway and 65m SW of the River Mahore which also marks a townland boundary with Oldtown (Bennett). Ring-barrow (LI032-153002-) lies 30m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a ring-barrow (Site 5) by Christine Tarbett and described as ‘This barrow nearest to the farm buildings and due E from them sits slightly elevated in the field. It has an external diameter of 13m and is circular in outline. The interior platform measures 7m in diameter. The ring-ditch is well defined where it measures circa 15cm in depth 1.3m in width. An enclosing bank is mostly continuous all around but low sited in the NE and E,’ (Tarbett 1987, 52). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013, although a small circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 7m) can be seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and a location map (Site 5) and sketch plan by Christine Tarbett (1987, 50 and 53).

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 9 November 2020

References

Tarbett, C. 1987 Barrows and standing stones. Journal of The Lough Gur & District Historical Society, 50-3.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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