Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cappanafaraha, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanafaraha
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43563, -8.69264
- SMR number
- LI039-162----
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 immediately W of the N20 roadway. Barrow (LI039-053---) lies 180m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Cropmark visible as an oval-shaped area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 where it is intersected at N by field boundary running NW-SE. Outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.