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Designed landscape feature

Mountshannon, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Mountshannon, 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
Mountshannon
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Partially outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Partially outlined
Coordinates
52.67658, -8.51797
SMR number
LI006-064----

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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

Now in grassland but originally on the landscaped demesne of the mid-18th century house Mount Shannon located 500m to N. The earthwork is depicted as a non-antiquity on the 1840 OS 6-inch map where the outline of a semi-circular area planted with trees is indicated by a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. A similar semi-circular shaped tree plantation is depicted on this map 70m to N. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a semi-circular shaped area (approx. dims. 130m NW-SE x 50m E-W) planted with trees and delimited by a field boundary from N through E to S. Earthwork visible today on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 where it survives as a field boundary from E through to S and has been removed from N to E. Probably the remains of a designed landscape feature associated with the landscaping of the Mount Shannon Demesne.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 17 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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