Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Gortacloona, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortacloona
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49539, -8.46964
- SMR number
- LI032-241----
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 430m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Barrow (LI032-240----) lies 130m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 226: AP 5/2015) as a suboval-shaped earthwork defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark (31m ENE-WSW; 23m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although is best seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 226
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.