Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - mound barrow
Gotoon (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gotoon (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.46481, -8.43723
- SMR number
- LI040-291----
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, immediately S of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI040-030----) lies 65m to N. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped mound (diam. c. 12m). Identified by archaeologist Edmond O’Donovan in 2015 from examination of aerial photography. Visible as a grass-covered mound on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages, where it is intersected at E by field boundary running NW-SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.