Mound in Ash Hill, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In pasture on the designed landscape of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 70m to SE. Walled garden of Ash Hill Towers lies immediately to S as shown on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on historic OSi 6-inch maps. A trace of a late 18th century estate map of Ash Hill, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick by Aideen Ireland (1983, 39-40), shows a sub-circular shaped area defined by a scarp annotated 'Mote'. Location of monument now covered with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and section of estate map taken from Ireland 1983.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI047-018

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The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Munster GAA Post Primary Schools; individual photographer not named, munster.gaa.ie

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