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Battery

Limerick City,Farranshone More, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Battery, Limerick City, Farranshone More, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Limerick City,Farranshone More
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.66234, -8.64770
SMR number
LI005-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

The remains would appear to be those of a battery. As it is not shown on the 1651 map of the siege works by William Webb (O’Flaherty 2010, map 15), it probably dates to either the sieges of 1690 or 1691. It may be identified with the battery shown at this location on the map of the siege of Limerick in 1691 (Story 1693, facing 224). It is shown and labelled with the letter ‘O’ on the map of Limerick by William Eyres drawn c. 1752 (O’Flaherty 2010, map 16) where it is described in the index as ‘The battery, the Irish [Jacobites] had to defend the passage of the river and annoy the troops that were encamped behind the works A [i.e., those erected by the Williamites on the opposite side of the river].’

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 4 March 2018

References

O'Flaherty, E. 2010 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.

Story, G. 1693 An impartial history of the wars of Ireland, with a continuation thereof. London. Chiswell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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