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Mound

Grange Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mound, Grange Upper, 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
Grange Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined, 125 ft. OD
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
52.65978, -8.50111
SMR number
LI006-043----

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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 the SW corner of a large gravel parking zone within Anacotty Industrial Estate, the top soil has been removed and a gravel surface has been laid in the area of the earthwork. Depicted as a non-antiquity on the 1838 OS 6-inch map where the outline of a circular area (approx. diam. 30m) indicated with a solid line has a trigonometrical station marked in the centre. The 1897 edition of the OS 25-inch map depicts a raised area surviving only from N through E to S that has been incorporated into a field boundary at E. This map also depicts a quarry 20m W of the surviving element. Digital Global orthoimage taken 2011-13 and Google Earth imagery 2018 confirms that no surface trace of the monument survives. Doubtful antiquity, the feature indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map have been a low mound constructed by the Ordnance Survey as a base for the Trig. Station which marked the spot height 125 ft. OD.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 9 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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