Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Cahercorney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercorney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52558, -8.48119
- SMR number
- LI032-282----
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 pasture, 145m W of the Camoge River which marks a townland boundary with Ballinard. A ring-barrow (LI032-197----) lies 30m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 152.02: AP 4/3638), as a small roughly circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 14m) defined by an inner fosse and a possible outer bank, best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, barely visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 152.02.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.