Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Glenosheen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenosheen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31244, -8.50874
- SMR number
- LI056-032002-
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
On the summit of Seefin Mountain. A cairn (LI056-032001-) lies 32m to the W. Not marked on historic OSi maps. National Museum of Ireland Field Monuments Files described the site as a ‘polygonal cist with encrusted urn and cremated bone found in 1941’. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Stone circle1 mi
- Kiln - lime2 mi
- Ringfort - rath2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.