Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cahercorney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercorney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52720, -8.49054
- SMR number
- LI032-195----
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
In improved pasture, 770m ENE of a townland boundary with Loughgur. Adjacent to and S of a complex of 12 monuments (LI032-073001-/013-). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 146: AP 4/3639), as an L-shaped cropmark adjoining a linear field boundary running NNW-SSE, to E. Monument also recorded as an L-shaped cropmark by the Discovery Programme. Monument is clearly visible as an L-shaped earthwork (30m ENE-WSW; approx 40m NNW-SSE) defined by a fosse-like depression to ENE and SSE, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 146 and Discovery Programme aerial photograph labelled 16.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 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.