Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Ragamus, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ragamus
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49669, -8.48331
- SMR number
- LI032-233001-
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 wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 515m to E. A townland boundary with Kilcullane lies 140m to W. A ditch-barrow (LI032-233002-) lies approx. 16m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 5/2014) as a small circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 6.5m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled LI032-233001-
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 November 2020
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.