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Barrow - ditch barrow

Cush, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - ditch barrow, Cush, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cush
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.38545, -8.45584
SMR number
LI048-033001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 poorly drained pasture, 155m E of the townland boundary with Kilmurry. Not marked on historic OSi maps. One of two barrows (LI048-033002-) excavated by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 180-181) in the townland of Cush located on Mr. W. O’Donnell’s farm and described as following; ‘The overall diameter was about 40 feet [12m] and is shown in the photography by the man and boy are standing at the extremities of a diameter of the circle. The arrows show its extent in the other direction. This barrow on excavation proved to have a surrounding ditch about 2 feet [0.6m] in depth. No “finds” were made beyond the fact that the original ground-surface was seen to be flecked with charcoal. A second similar barrow (LI048-033002-) was excavated in the same field, and others could be seen at certain states of the vegetation.’ No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Outline of ditch barrow visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018.

See attached photo from Ó Ríordáin, location marked ‘X’ on RMP map for Co. Limerick and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 12 August 2021

References

Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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