Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47094, -8.62978
- SMR number
- LI039-022----
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 flat wet reclaimed floodplains of the Morningstar River 80m to NW, ring-ditch (LI039-205----) immediately to SSE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform (diam. c. 16m) defined by a scarp. Not marked on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map indicating that the monument was levelled between these map dates. Partially levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp and wide fosse on aerial photograph (ASIAP (328) 7, 3) taken 5/10/2002. Monument visible as a sunken circular shaped area (diam. c. 10m) standing inside a larger circular-shaped area (diam. c. 48m) defined by a waterlogged fosse visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph (ASIAP (328) 7, 3) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 328/1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on 15/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.