Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Cool, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cool
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51421, -8.38861
- SMR number
- LI033-016----
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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 flat pasture 115m W of stream that marks the townland boundary with Carrickittle. Cool House 200m to N. Not depicted as an antiquity but shown as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 70m NE-SW; 45m NW-SE) indicated with a dotted line on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map with a trackway to immediate E. It is not depicted on subsequent OSi maps. Outline of shallow depression with traces of possible surrounding bank visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018 may be remains of an estate feature associated with Cool House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 3 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.