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Barrow - unclassified

Gortacloona, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Gortacloona, 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
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----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

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

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

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