Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.45884, -8.45494
- SMR number
- LI040-288----
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. Ditch barrow (LI040-287----) lies 85m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small square enclosure from oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (347) 17) dated 05-01-2003. Faint traces of monument defined by a bank curving from W-N-NW, intersected at S by a drainage ditch running E-W and at W by a drainage ditch running N-S visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (347) 17) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 July 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.