Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cooleen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cooleen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.45434, -8.68459
- SMR number
- LI039-005----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, 95m W of the River Maigue, immediately S of the townland boundary with Lackanagrour. Enclosure (LI039-003----) lies 400m to WNW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 34m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by a scarp, intersected at W by a lane or trackway running N-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse, standing in the NW corner of a field on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 10 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.