Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castlefarm, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlefarm
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured, Hospital Hill
- Coordinates
- 52.48149, -8.43251
- SMR number
- LI032-146002-
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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, on the summit of Hospital Hill (383ft/117m), 350m NE of a townland boundary with Millfarm. An earthwork complex (LI032-146001-) lies 190m to NW and a barrow (LI032-149001-), a ring-barrow (LI032-149003-) and an enclosure (LI032-150----) lie 210m to ESE, 290m to SE and 295m to E respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped platform (80m ENE-WSW; 66m NNW-SSE) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as an earthwork on oblique aerial photograph taken 20/07/1968 (CUCAP AVT025). Upstanding monument visible as an oval-shaped platform (69m NW-SE; 60m NE-SW) defined by a scarp with a mound (31m NW-SE; 60m NE-SW) in the centre on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. A water tower (NIAH ref. 21811033; built 1925-1945) stands in the SE quadrant.
See attached CUCAP orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 352/3 taken on 05/01/2003.
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.