Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Elmpark Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elmpark Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.62247, -8.73314
- SMR number
- LI012-050----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture on slight W facing slope, on the demesne lands of Elm Park House located 290m to NNW. No surface remains visible. This is the most southerly of three earthworks (LI012-047-/049----) forming a line running NW-SE for a distance of c. 293m. The two earthworks(LI012-047-/049----) lie 270m and 166m to the NW respectively. Depicted as a a small grove of trees on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map 72m W of burial ground (private), as a circular sunken area (approx. int. diam. 10m) enclosed by a ditch (approx. Wth 5m) with tree planted interior. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. Possible designed landscape feature that has been levelled. Cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 06/02/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 06/02/2018 and 19/11/2019
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.