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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Currahchase, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Currahchase, 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
Currahchase
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
52.59135, -8.86215
SMR number
LI011-147----

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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

On a knoll, in mixed woodland, on the grounds of Currah Chase House located 590m to WSW. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree plantation and not as an antiquity on the OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a suboval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 34m), with a subrectangular-shaped annexe (approx. dims. 27m N-S x 30m E-W) partially conjoined to E. Obscured by woodland on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 8 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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