TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Designed landscape feature

Fortetna, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Fortetna, 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
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----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

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

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Designed landscape feature in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map