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Mound

Ash Hill, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Ash Hill, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ash Hill
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39634, -8.58524
SMR number
LI047-018----

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David 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 pasture on the designed landscape of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 70m to SE. Walled garden of Ash Hill Towers lies immediately to S as shown on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on historic OSi 6-inch maps. A trace of a late 18th century estate map of Ash Hill, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick by Aideen Ireland (1983, 39-40), shows a sub-circular shaped area defined by a scarp annotated 'Mote'. Location of monument now covered with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and section of estate map taken from Ireland 1983.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 8 September 2021

References

Ireland, A. 1983 An eighteenth century map of Ash Hill, Kilmallock. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 25, 37-42.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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