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Bawn

Ash Hill, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, 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
Site of Castle Coote
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.39628, -8.57982
SMR number
LI047-021001-

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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)
  • 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

To the W of Charleville Road , within the former demesne lands of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 300m to the WSW. Site of Castle Coote (LI047-021002-) indicated in centre of earthwork. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a rectangular shaped field or walled area with small rectangular shaped building in NW corner. On the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map the rectangular shaped field has been partially levelled and only a section of the N and E sides of survive as an L-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 39m NE-SW; 37m NW-SE ). May be the remains of a levelled bawn wall that enclosed the 'Site of Castle Coote' (LI047-021002-). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 August 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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