Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Gotoon (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gotoon (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46618, -8.43670
- SMR number
- LI040-031----
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
Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a small circular earthen platform surrounded by a fosse. The platform top slopes gently from east to west. The entrance is not recognisable. The maximum height of the platform is 4' 6" [1.37m] and the overall diameter is 84' [26m]. The fosse has disappeared on the east owing to the making of a drain and fence on that side. Situated in wet low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 238-9). Faint cropmark of levelled monument barely visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Standing stone to N of earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a triangular limestone slab 4' [1.2m] high and 9" [0.23m] thick. It looks ancient. It stands in the same field as the above monument and to the north of it. It is not on the O.S. map' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 6 March 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
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