Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch 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
- 52.47101, -8.41142
- SMR number
- LI040-037004-
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 rough wet pasture, 15m SW of the River Mahore that forms townland boundary with Oldtown. One of four barrows (LI040-037001-/003-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Tarbett (1987, 53) as ‘Site 4’ and described as; ‘The remains of this barrow can only be traced by the differential growth patterning in the encircling ring-ditch, no enclosing bank can be seen. The diameter measures 7.70m N-S and 9m E-W.’ No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. Possible monument visible as circular cropmark or pond feature 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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.