Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Pullagh (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pullagh (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924).
- Coordinates
- 52.48411, -8.73442
- SMR number
- LI030-107001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a low rise, in improved pasture, 140m E of a townland boundary with Morenane. Castle (LI030-107002-) lies within. Described in the SMR file as an oval-shaped banked/ditched enclosure. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a large oval-shaped earthwork (52m NW-SE; 49m NE-SW) which is open to NE and is defined by a precipice cliff edge to SW. Area to SE, S and SW annotated as a disused quarry. A portion of the earthwork is visible as a curvilinear cropmark from ENE-E-SSE on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 October 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.