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
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.34864, -8.51520
- SMR number
- LI056-061----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture 65m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Sunville Lower. Earthwork (LI056-005----) lies 80m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Levelled earthwork visible as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 35m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a scarp on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Digital Globe orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.