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Barrow - ditch barrow

Coolalough, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Coolalough, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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