Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Gortroe (Connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortroe (Connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.37689, -8.73434
- SMR number
- LI046-028----
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 gently undulating marshy pasture. An oval mound (8m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.55m) of burnt material. The top of the mound is slightly concave. A field drain immediately S of the mound may have truncated it slightly on that side. Immediately E of the mound is a waterlogged area (8m N-S; 2.5m).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.