Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mortgage, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortgage
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53371, -8.61245
- SMR number
- LI022-245----
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 a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from SE-SSE-S, 220m SW of the townland boundary with Ballyea. Barrow (LI022-133----) 175m to SW. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 105: AP4/3647). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.