Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - bowl-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
- 52.49323, -8.47424
- SMR number
- LI032-242----
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, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 170m to W, which forms a townland boundary with Ragamus. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 225: AP 5/2015) as a roughly circular-shaped platform defined by a fosse. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped platform (21m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on on Google Earth orthoimage taken 04/04/2013.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 225
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 348/11 and 12 taken on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.