Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ditch barrow
Raheen (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Raheen (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40987, -8.37298
- SMR number
- LI049-033005-
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, in the S quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-033001/005-), barrow (LI049-033004-) lies 19m to the W and a cremation pit (LI049-036----) lies 60m to the S. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Potential ditch-barrow identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580, Site 234) taken 03/11/1984. Trace of circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 20011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage date 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.