Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.46450, -8.41838
- SMR number
- LI040-202----
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 pasture, 115m E of townland boundary with Kilfrush, cropmark of a possible earthwork (LI040-203----) lies 110m to the NE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 71; AP 5/2077) as two linear cropmarks running parallel to each other. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint trace of possible monument visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 13m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.