Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Carrigeen (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrigeen (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48577, -8.59719
- SMR number
- LI031-126----
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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 improved pasture 50m S of R516 that marks the townland boundary with Camas. Enclosure (LI031-110---) lies 65m to SW. Not depicted on any OSi historic maps. Monument identified as a mound by Grogan (1989, 222) and labelled in his thesis as 'Carrigeen 2'. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 April 2021
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.