Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Baggotstown West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baggotstown West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44721, -8.49642
- SMR number
- LI040-234----
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
In pasture, 30m N of townland boundary with Gormanstown and 180m E of the Morningstar River. An unclassified barrow (LI040-163----) lies 70m to NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 01/04/2021. Correspondence form the National Museum of Ireland refers to the discovery of animal bones near a possible mound.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 28 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.