Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
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
- 52.46521, -8.42572
- SMR number
- LI040-269----
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, 20m N of townland boundary with Kilfrush. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 131, AP 5/2077) as a circular cropmark of a possible barrow. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 131 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.