Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Morgans North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morgans North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61836, -9.02483
- SMR number
- LI010-130----
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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 low-lying pasture, near the angle of a field boundary, c. 390m SW of an inlet of the Shannon Estuary. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified in 1999 as a cairn (Site 10) by Celie O’Rahilly when walking the route of a proposed ESB power line. Described as a small cairn covered by scrub. A second similar feature (LI010-129----) lies c. 22m to NW. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped scrub-covered area (approx. dims. 9.5m NE-SW x 5m NW-SE) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 29/03/2012.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.