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
- 52.49560, -8.38288
- SMR number
- LI033-083004-
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 on the S side of Cromwell Hill and 65m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Garryncahera. The most N of a concentration of four possible barrows (LI033-053002-/05-) running NW-SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 115.04 AP 5/2022) as a ring-barrow. Faint traces of a possible cropmark visible, immediately N of a drainage channel running NW-SE, on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 115.04 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 8 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.