Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte and bailey
Portnard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portnard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.63994, -8.33572
- SMR number
- LI015-081----
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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 gently undulating pasture, with good view in all directions. The monument consists of a flat topped (18m N-S; 13m W-E) conical mound (diam. 38m; H 4.7m) with a roughly rectangular platform (26m E-W; 32m N-S) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 8m; H 2.5m) attached on its W side. The entire mounment is overgrown by scrub. A field boundary crosses the platform close to its junction with the mound.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 29 October 2013.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.