Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cahercorney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercorney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.52940, -8.48580
- SMR number
- LI032-073016-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gently sloping ground falling E where a stream flows 750m N into the Camoge River. The feature is located 370m E of Cahercorney Church (LI032-072001-) and graveyard (LI032-072002-). Located within a complex of 12 monuments (LI032-073001-/013-) recorded by M. J. O'Kelly (1942-3, 181-2). The Discovery Programme identified further monuments within the complex including this ‘site’ (LI032-073016-).
The feature is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an earthwork during archaeological research by the Discovery Programme (Grogan 2005) on the North Munster Project (Discovery Programme Site No. 19). The site is visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 as a rectangular-shaped earthwork aligned roughly E-W. The site should appraised by field inspection.
See attached Discovery Programme mapping and ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 344/10 taken 05/01/2003
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 20 October 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Grogan, E. 2005 The North Munster Project, Vol. 2. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.