Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Gorteen West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gorteen West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46093, -8.92701
- SMR number
- LI037-113----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, immediately N of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Cloncagh, a penitential station (LI037-023----) lies 160m to the N. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Two levelled mounds identified in 1959 (NMI topographical files) and communications from Mr. Henry Wheeler described one of the levelled mounds as ‘marked by a considerable amount of burnt stones…a few yards from a stream.’ No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 20 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.