Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Cromwell, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromwell
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50258, -8.39609
- SMR number
- LI033-050004-
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 pasture 130m N of the summit of Cromwell Hill (OD 586 feet). Ring-barrow (LI033-050002-) lies 50m to E and bowl-barrow (LI033-050001-) 130m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSI maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 55; AP 5/2022) as a possible ring-barrow. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 133/09 on 23/08/2000. 332/15, 16, 19 on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.