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Megalithic structure

Corcamore, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic structure, Corcamore, 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
Corcamore
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Cloughregaun
Latest-edition OS map
Cloughregaun (1923)
Coordinates
52.63524, -8.75785
SMR number
LI012-013----

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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 a private garden to the rear of a dwelling. Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a very small square-shaped feature incorporated into field boundary and annotated 'Cloughregaun'. Area of monument appears to be occupied by an outbuilding on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

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.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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