Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ash Hill, County Limerick, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.