Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Deerpark (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Deerpark (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40318, -8.32585
- SMR number
- LI049-265----
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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 on the S slope of Duntryleague Hill, the summit (922 ft., 281m) of which lies 540m to NE. A megalithic tomb (LI049-077----) and two cairns (LI049-076/78----) are located at the summit of Duntryleague with enclosure (LI049-256---) 140m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by W. Forbes in 1986 as a possible ring-barrow cemetery located on S slope of Duntryleague Hill. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached location map and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.