Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.46138, -8.45118
- SMR number
- LI040-026003-
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, N of a group of twelve barrows (LI040-026002-/013) and 50m NW of large impressive ring-barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Potential site identified as a rectangular shaped area defined by a ditch during examination of aerial photographs by the Discovery Programme. Possible monument visible as rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 12m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. The linear cropmarks visible on this aerial may be the remains of drainage ditches associated with land reclamation of nearby Rathanny House. Doubtful antiquity, the earthwork may be defined by drainage ditches associated with post-1700 land reclamation works in this field. Earthwork is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AVT026; AYO038) taken 20/07/1968 and 10/07/1969.
See attached CUCAP and Bruff aerial photograph (2075 Site No. 3) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.