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Mound

Corbally (Limerick Municipal Borough), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Corbally (Limerick Municipal Borough), 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
Corbally (Limerick Municipal Borough)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1903)
Coordinates
52.68098, -8.62317
SMR number
LI005-021----

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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

In generally level, poorly drained pasture, on the floodplain of the River Shannon and Abbey River, c. 250m to W and c. 180m to S, respectively. Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map and on the revised 1938 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped mound (approx. overall diam. 16m). Visible as a roughly circular-shaped light-brown cropmark (diam. 16m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 19/11/2019.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 22 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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