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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
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.62247, -8.73314
SMR number
LI012-050----

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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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