Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Coolalough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolalough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47270, -8.41504
- SMR number
- LI040-037001-
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 wet pasture, 42m SW of the River Mahore that forms townland boundary with Oldtown. The most northerly of a group of four barrows (LI040-037002-/004-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as Site I by Tarbett (1987, 53) and described as, ‘the best surviving of the ring barrows. It measures 14m in diameter and follows the line of the ground slope to the East. The interior platform is circular measuring 7m in diameter, it is well defined by the ring ditch which measures circa 20cms in depth 1m in width, the enclosing bank can visibly be traced all around where it measures not more than 50cms in height.' Possible trace of monument visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Possible outline visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017.
See attached location map and drawing from C. Tarbett and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
References
Tarbett, C. 1987 Barrows and standing stones. Journal of The Lough Gur & District Historical Society, 50-3.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.