Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Fortetna, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fortetna
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.59116, -8.70799
- SMR number
- LI012-091----
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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
Immediately S of farmbuildings on demesne lands of the 18th century Fort Etna House, located 70m to N. Depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map as a grove of trees adjacent to the formal gardens of the house. On this map it is shown as a roughly rectangular-shaped area indicated by a dotted line. Depicted as a semi-circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 26m) on the OS 25-inch map where it is defined by a raised scarp from E through S to N. This map depicts a structure located to immediate N. Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-2013 indicate farm buildings to the N and E with no surface remains visible. Possible landscape feature associated with Fort Etna House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.