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
- 52.47199, -8.41393
- SMR number
- LI040-037002-
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, 90m SW of the River Mahore that forms townland boundary with Oldtown. One of four barrows (LI040-037001/004-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Tarbett (1987, 51) as ‘Site 2’ and described as, 'larger in overall diameter than site one and more ovoid in shape. It has an external N-S diameter of 15.50m and 18m E-W. It cannot be easily traced in the field, the shallow ditch does not clearly define the interior platform at the North. The enclosing bank is low and is not seen to survive at the NW or at the East. The interior platform measures 8.50m in diameter N-S and 11m E-W. The ditch measures circa 1.50m in width and 20cms in depth, the bank measures 20cms in height. This barrow is located 150m due South from Site one’. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-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.