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Mound

Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Rathmore South, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathmore South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.52151, -8.64008
SMR number
LI031-018----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, 12m S of a field boundary and 45m W of a townland boundary with Rathmore North. Rathmore Castle (LI031-019----) lies 100m to NE. Depicted on the Cassini 6-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped mound (20m N-S; 18m E-W). Referred to by O’Kelly (1944, 49) as an ‘elongated tumulus’ and described as: ‘A small elongated mound not quite 3’ (0.91m) high. Its long axis runs N-S and is 33’ (10m) long, while the width is 15’ (4.6m). There is no fosse. Local tradition holds that it is a burial ground’. Monument is visible as an oblong-shaped mound (10m N-S; 4.5m E-W) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 October 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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