Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Rahard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.52417, -8.30564
- SMR number
- LI033-044----
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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 wet pasture 10m S of a stream and field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Newtown. Barrow (LI033-166----) 50m to SE. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 15m) defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 10.8m; H 0.35m) from SE to W reduced to a scarp elsewhere with an outer fosse (Wth 4.5m; D 0.15m) only visible from S-SW. Described in 1964 as a; ‘Platform 60 feet (18m) in diameter and 1 foot (0.3m) high. Encircled by a shallow ditch, 2 feet (0.6m) wide’ (O’Dwyer 1960-1964, 98; Rahard 77). Outline of monument visible as cropmark defined by fosse on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and profile of monument drawn by O'Dwyer
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 29 March 2021
References
O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.