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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Prospect (Clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Prospect, 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
Prospect (Clanwilliam By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined (1938)
Coordinates
52.69657, -8.53532
SMR number
LI006-003----

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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 gently sloping pasture 350m E of the River Shannon on the demesne lands of Prospect House located 500m to ENE. No antiquity shown at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree-ring (approx. diam. 37m) on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Cropmark of levelled tree-ring consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 45m) defined by a ditch (c. 1m wide) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. The site is bisected by a post-1700 field boundary. This earthwork was depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a tree-ring which was a demesne landscape feature associated with Prospect House.

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Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 10 July 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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