Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Mortlestown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortlestown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34765, -8.49460
- SMR number
- LI056-011002-
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 rough pasture, on the summit of Mortlestown Hill, 20m W of townland boundary with Ballygeagoge. A linear earthwork intersects Cathair Murthuile (LI056-011001-) at NW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Cropmark of levelled monument visible as linear feature running NW-SE, intersecting the ringfort (LI056-011001-) at NW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph (CUCAP ATD058) and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.