Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Rathanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45964, -8.45568
- SMR number
- LI040-255----
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 wet pasture on the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Ballycahill. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 136; AP 5/2075) as a possible barrow. Monument is visible as a circular shaped area (diam. c. 8m) defined by a ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018 and faint traces visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Outline of ditch barrow visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 17).
See attached Bruff aerial photograph, oblique aerial image (ASIAP (347) 17) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 30 June 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.