Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-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
- 52.46869, -8.41760
- SMR number
- LI040-257----
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, enclosures (LI040-194001-/036) lie 95m to the W and 85m to the E respectively. Identified as a possible enclosure by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 134; AP 5/2077). Trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 13m) intersected at S by a linear cropmark running E-W visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 134 and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 June 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.