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
- 52.45960, -8.45468
- SMR number
- LI040-287----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 wet pasture on the floodplains of the Camoge River. Ditch barrow (LI040-255----) lies 60m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified from oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 17) dated 05-01-2003 as a possible barrow. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (347) 17) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 July 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.