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Barrow - unclassified

Rahard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Rahard, 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
Rahard
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.52417, -8.30564
SMR number
LI033-044----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

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

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

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