Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rivers, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rivers
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.66483, -8.53099
- SMR number
- LI006-019----
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
On level ground within The Willows housing estate, 165m W of the Mulkear River. Natural spring well 13m to SSE as shown on OS 6-inch maps. The site is described from cartographic and aerial photographic evidence only. Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Shown as a raised circular-shaped shaped area (approx. int. diam. 26m) defined by a scarp on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Depicted as a small sunken area enclosed by a bank similar to a pond-barrow on the Cassini OS 6-inch map. Outline of tree-covered monument in centre of housing estate clearly visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 19/11/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 12 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Kiln - corn-dryingunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.