Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mortlestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortlestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.35591, -8.50605
- SMR number
- LI056-006----
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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, 170m SE of townland boundary with Laurencetown South. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. 27m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Levelled earthwork visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.