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
- 52.46127, -8.44890
- SMR number
- LI040-026010-
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, in the NE of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002/009-; 026011/013-, 180m NE of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-). Potential site identified as a circular cropmark defined by a ditch during examination of aerial photographs by the Discovery Programme. Faint cropmark (diam. c. 6m) visible on Digital Globe orthophotograph taken 2011-13. Monument visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph with site marked No. 10 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 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.