Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Kilcullane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcullane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49945, -8.48150
- SMR number
- LI032-232004-
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 the crest of a narrow ridge running NW-SE, in rough, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 265m to ENE. A townland boundary with Ragamus lies 35m to WSW. The central of a group of three contiguous barrows (LI032-232001-/03-/04-) which are on top of the ridge; a linear earthwork (LI032-232002-) lies to the immediate W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 218.04: AP 5/2014) as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a very faint circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 10m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 218.04
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 18 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.