Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 52.61955, -9.01789
- SMR number
- LI010-132----
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 the S edge of an inlet of the Shannon Estuary, c. 20m to WNW of a small stream and its confluence with the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified in 1999 as a mound (Site 17) by Celie O’Rahilly when walking the route of a proposed ESB power line. Described as a mound orientated WNW-ESE which is covered solely in hawthorn trees. At ground level on the SW side is a recess in the fabric of the mound which is lined with two parallel drystone walls approximately 2m apart. The fabric of the mound is a dark gritty sand which is in contrast to the surrounding clay subsoil. Monument is visible as a scrub-covered mound on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or Google Earth orthoimages 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.