Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Caherelly East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherelly East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54837, -8.48178
- SMR number
- LI023-210----
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
In wet pasture, 10m W of a watercourse and 430m W of a townland boundary with Doonvullen. Ringfort (LI023-044----) 185m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a subcircular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 146: AP 4/3659). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 146.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 4 September
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.