Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Moorestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.37941, -8.42076
- SMR number
- LI048-066001-
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 a cleared area of modern coniferous forest plantation close to the top of Slievereagh Mountain. Souterrain (LI048-066002-) lies to immediate S. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi six-inch map. Hachured as a small hollow depression on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. May be the remains of quarry holes of post-1700 date.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Standing stone - pairunder 1 mi
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.