Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Coolanoran, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolanoran
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48661, -9.01554
- SMR number
- LI028-146----
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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 a marshy area of waste ground, in a natural hollow. A flat-topped circular mound (diam. 10m; H 1.05m) densely covered by bushes and trees and eroded by cattle in places. The base of the mound is waterlogged NE->SSW which may indicate the presence of a fosse.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.