Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ash Hill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ash Hill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.39817, -8.58108
- SMR number
- LI047-020----
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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 reclaimed pasture immediately S of a forestry plantation, formerly on S bank of Ash Hill Lough that has been drained, on the former demesne lands of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 330m to SW. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch as a small semi-circular-shaped platform (dims c. 21m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) defined by a drain from NW-N-E with scarp elsewhere. Outline of earthwork delimited by bushes is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork which is located on the S shoreline of a lake that has been drained in modern times and replanted with coniferous plantation.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- House - 17th/18th centuryunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.