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
- 52.40632, -8.37390
- SMR number
- LI049-035----
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, 105m E of townland boundary with Mitchelstown East, Barrows (LI049-227/228----) lie 60m to the W and S respectively Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Possible ditch-barrow identified as a circular shaped cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2580, Site 231) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 20011-13 and clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage date 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photographsand Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.