Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cromwell, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromwell
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50063, -8.37885
- SMR number
- LI033-171----
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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 pasture on SE slope of Cromwell Hill. Earthwork (LI033-070----) lies 60m to NW and earthworks (LI033-079001/002-) 20m to SE and 20m to S respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Sarah McCutcheon, executive archaeologist, Limerick City and County Council in 2016 as a possible enclosure. Monument is visible as a sunken D-shaped area (dims. c. 8m N-S; 20m E-W) immediately S of a field boundary on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of circular cropmark, extending N at the rear of a modern dwelling is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.