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