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
- 52.46846, -8.42026
- SMR number
- LI040-258----
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, an earthwork (LI040-194001-) lies 85m to the S. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible ditch-barrow by the Bruff survey (Bruff 69; McCloud DP 01/06). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph taken by McCloud and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 5 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.