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Designed landscape feature

Elmpark Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Elmpark Demesne, 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
Elmpark Demesne
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.62453, -8.73580
SMR number
LI012-047----

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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 level pasture at base of W facing slope on the demesne lands of Elm Park House located 80m to NNE. No surface remains visible. This is the most northerly of three enclosures (LI012-049-/050----) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 293m. The two enclosures (LI012-049-/050----) lie 92m and 270m to SE respectively. Monument indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped sunken area (approx. ext. diam. 21m) defined by a ditch (approx. Wth 6m) with tree in centre of earthwork. Outline of depression visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018 which has been incorporated into a field boundary at N. Location of earthwork on the demesne of Elm Park House suggests that this earthwork is a designed landscape feature.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 18 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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