Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
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
- 52.34392, -8.49809
- SMR number
- LI056-009002-
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 reclaimed pasture, immediately W of a public road. Holy well (LI056-009001-) known locally as Tobar Fhionáin lies 10m to the SW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a small circular shaped mound on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.