Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Bottomstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bottomstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45104, -8.47617
- SMR number
- LI040-272----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 wet pasture, an enclosure (LI040-273----) lies 165m to the N. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 141, AP 5/2104) as a possible mound. Trace of monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 141 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.