Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Rootiagh (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rootiagh (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52573, -8.44914
- SMR number
- LI032-202----
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 and drained pasture, 45m E of a land drain and 200m N of a townland boundary with Ballyloundash. Enclosure (LI032-203----) lies 285m to SSW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 157: AP 4/3635), as a small circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 14.5m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 157
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.