Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Gortacloona, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacloona
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not inidcated
- Coordinates
- 52.49627, -8.47151
- SMR number
- LI032-240----
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 low lying wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 265m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Ditch-barrow (LI032-241----) lies 130m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 224: AP 5/2015) as a roughly circular-shaped mound defined by what appears to be a wide fosse. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (39m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a possible fosse from W-NW-N, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. A wide fosse is highlighted by flooding where it is waterlogged from S-W-N-E-SE with an obvious causeway from SE-S, as seen on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018. The width of the waterlogged fosse varies from 13m at E, to 16m at N and 20m at WSW. The central mound and wide fosse would suggest that this is a bowl-barrow.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/03/2018 and 20/09/20 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 224
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.