Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilmacogue, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmacogue
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.53835, -8.28184
- SMR number
- LI024-085----
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 level pasture, with railway line immediately to NE and a stream 160m to SW which marks townland boundary with Gortaclareen. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (14m E-W; 12m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.85m; H 0.5m) that has been quarried from NE-E-ENE and at WNW. There is a steep downslope to N between the monument and the railway embankment (long-axis ESE–WNW). Monument visible as a roughly oval-shaped partially scrub covered earthwork on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 21 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.