Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Rathanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46109, -8.45150
- SMR number
- LI040-026002-
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 reclaimed wet pasture, one of eleven barrows (LI040-026004-/0260013), 20m NW of large impressive rig-barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small circular shaped cropmark during examination of aerial photographs by the Discovery Programme. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimage dated 2011-13. Possible faint trace of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph (2075, Site 2) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.