Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Bulgadenhall, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bulgadenhall
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42710, -8.52907
- SMR number
- LI040-054----
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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 reclaimed pasture, immediately N of a watercourse that forms a townland boundary with Ballygrennan, an enclosure (LI040-092----) lies 160m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Monument described by O'Kelly (1944, 52) as a Type C earthwork consisting of; ‘A circular platform surrounded by a fosse. A modern drainage trench has cut off an arc of both. Its max. height is 11’ [3.3m] and overall diameter 50” [15.2]. No surface remains of monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 30 April 2021
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.