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
- 52.46959, -8.41463
- SMR number
- LI040-246----
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 reclaimed pasture immediately N of a field drain running NE-SW. Bowl barrow (LI040-036----) lies 65m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from McCloud aerial image (27). Described by Sarah Cross and Eoin Grogan in 1994 (License No. 94E0172) as a ‘previously unrecorded ring-ditch was also noted 20m to the north. It measures 7m north-south and 6m east-west. The mound is 3.6m in diameter and c. 0.3m high’. Faint trace of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached McCloud aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 2 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.