Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Prospect (clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prospect (clanwilliam By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.69657, -8.53532
- SMR number
- LI006-003----
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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 gently sloping pasture 350m E of the River Shannon on the demesne lands of Prospect House located 500m to ENE. No antiquity shown at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree-ring (approx. diam. 37m) on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Cropmark of levelled tree-ring consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 45m) defined by a ditch (c. 1m wide) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. The site is bisected by a post-1700 field boundary. This earthwork was depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a tree-ring which was a demesne landscape feature associated with Prospect House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 10 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.