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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
52.46959, -8.41463
SMR number
LI040-246----

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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 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

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

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