Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Gallows
Spital-Land, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spital-Land
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Gallows Green
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65878, -8.61019
- SMR number
- LI005-040----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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
Modern housing estate built on site of Gallows Green annotated in this area on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Gallows Green is depicted on the 17th century Down Survey map of St Patrick's Parish (NLI, MS 718).
See attached Down Survey map of the parish of St. Patrick's which shows the gallows or gibbet of 'Gallows Green'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 8 June 2020
References
NLI, MS 718 - National Library of Ireland, Parish maps with terriers, showing forfeited lands in County Limerick, commonly known as the "Down Survey", executed under the direction of Sir William Petty, 1657, and copied by Daniel O'Brien, 1786.
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.