Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Cullane Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Cullane Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35261, -8.29544
- SMR number
- LI057-013002-
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 wet pasture 155m W of the River Aherlow that marks the townland boundary with Baurnagurrahy. Possible ring-barrow (LI057-013001-) lies 18m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; No. 2617) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimageS.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 18 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.