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Mound

Cowpark, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Cowpark, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cowpark
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.60517, -8.89109
SMR number
LI011-066----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on gently-undulating terrain. This site is depicted as a square (L c. 20m) embanked enclosure on the 1841 OS 6-inch map but as a circular mound (diam. c. 10m) on the 1923 OS 6-inch map. It now takes the form of a sub-rectangular earthen mound (H 2.35m; 16.5m N-S; 14m E-W) at the NE corner of which is the remains of the N end of a rectangular structure (1.5m N-S; 1.6m E-W). This is built of roughly coursed mortared stonework (H 0.98m Wth 0.5m). A low dry-stone wall (H 0.34m; Wth 1.4m) runs on N-S axis for c. 5.6m immediately to the S of the structure. There is an ovoid depression (3m N-S; 2m E-W; D 0.37m) immediately to the W of the dry-stone wall. Otherwise the top of the mound is covered by an impenetrable thicket of briars though it is evident that a lot of stones are littered about its surface.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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