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Barrow - unclassified

Spittle (Coshlea By., Ballylanders ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Spittle, 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
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

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 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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