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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
52.37636, -8.31825
SMR number
LI049-246----

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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, 140m W of townland boundary with Knockaunnacurraha. Possible barrow (LI049-238-) lies 40m to the NW and possible barrow (LI049-239-) 60m to E. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified as a possible barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2609, No. 373) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a faint circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages where it is located immediately N of a farm track running NW-SE.

See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 October 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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