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
- 52.46097, -8.44917
- SMR number
- LI040-026013-
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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 pasture, one of a group of eleven possible barrows (LI040-026002/012-) and 140m E of large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (AP 5/2101) as a small circular cropmark of a possible barrow. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken 2005-12. Faint cropmark of possible ditch-barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage 14/09/2019.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph (AP 5/2101) with site marked No. 13.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.