Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Courtbrack, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Courtbrack
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65275, -8.65280
- SMR number
- LI005-077----
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
In an undeveloped greenfield plot, to E of McGuire’s Yard and W of an oil storage depot. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation, during the course of field survey. Described by O'Rahilly as visible as a spread of possible slag, located in the angle of a recently deepened drain.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 02/07/2018 and field map by O'Rahilly showing location of iron slag find.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 26 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.