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Barrow - unclassified

Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed), County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.37646, -8.31727
SMR number
LI049-239----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, 90m W of townland boundary with Knockaunnacurraha. Possible barrow (LI049-246----) lies 60m to the NW and possible barrow (LI049-238----) 100m to W. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Monument listed ‘Spittle 2’ and identified as a ring-barrow by Grogan (1989, 249). Shallow depression visible in centre of field visible on Google Earth orthoimages may be the earthwork listed 'Spittle 2'.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 October 2021

Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.

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

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