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Barrow - ring-barrow

Rathanny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ring-barrow, Rathanny, 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
Rathanny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.46065, -8.45228
SMR number
LI040-026001-

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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 on the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Ballycahill. A group of eleven barrows (LI040-026002-; 026004-/026013-) and an enclosure (LI040-026003-) lie to the W. Large impressive and well preserved bivallate barrow (overall diam. 107m) depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp and wide waterlogged fosse, and wide bank with berm and gap at E, with fosse both of which are transected at E by a post-1700 field boundary running roughly N-S. Remains of a second outer bank are visible from S-W only. The impressive monument is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AVT026; AYO038) taken 20/07/1968 and 10/07/1969 and on Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial images (ASIAP (347) 21) taken 05/01/2003. Well preserved barrow visible on Digital Globe orthophotograph taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached CUCAP, ASIAP aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 14 May 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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