Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Oolahills East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oolahills East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.53874, -8.24940
- SMR number
- LI025-018----
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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 N-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from NW-N-NE and 155m SE of a townland boundary with Moanroe. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised subcircular-shaped area (16m E-W; approx. 10m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.3m; H 0.3m) from SW-W-N-E which is levelled from E-S-SW. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth and has been raised on the N side to compensate for hillslope. A field boundary runs NW-SE approx. 2m to SW of monument and a farm track flanks the monument to E and S. Monument is visible as a faint subcircular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 18 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.