Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Cooperhill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooperhill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66144, -8.71323
- SMR number
- LI004-027----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On reclaimed intertidal marshlands, near the present bed of the River Shannon. Identified as a possible timber trackway which was uncovered during reclamation works along this portion of the river. Described along with the find of a Viking sword in 1958 as following; ‘trunks of oak trees laid flat in one direction, 16 feet [4.9m] under the surface (NMI Topographical Files, 1958). It has been suggested that it may have formed a causeway to Muckinish, further to N. Listed as ‘Cooperhill 1’ by O’ Sullivan (2001, 309) who described the site as following; 'An iron Viking Age sword was found on the S bank in 1958, at a depth of 16ft, on a substantial causeway of 'oak trunks all laid flat in one direction' beside a creek. The brief description of the findspot and the depth at which it was found suggests that this was a wooden trackway or boat-hard in a saltmarsh creek. (NMI files.) Not visited'.
Monument is not visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
References
O'Sullivan, A. 2001 Foragers, farmers and fishers in a coastal landscape. Discovery Programme Monograph No. 5
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Weir - fishunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.