Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Millmount, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Millmount
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1902)
- Coordinates
- 52.39664, -8.55772
- SMR number
- LI047-027----
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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, 50m N of the River Loobagh and 20m S of a railway track. A tree-ring (LI047-028----) lies 110m to NE and Millmount Castle (LI047-026002-) 170m to SW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown as a tree-ring on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 23m NE-SW; 18m NW-SE) with the interior planted with trees. Similar tree-planted earthworks or tree-rings are indicated to the NE on the OSi 25-inch map. No surface remains visible of tree-ring on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.