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Barrow - unclassified

Elmpark Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, 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
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62767, -8.73370
SMR number
LI012-100----

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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, 300m SW of the Barnakyle River, 200m NW of Elmpark House. No surface remains visible. Potential monument identified from examination of 1:10k OSi aerial photographs (OS5 740; Nr 0686) where the outline of an enclosure was identified. This earthwork is not indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or subsequent OS maps. Outline of a circular-shaped area defined by a bank (approx. overall dims. 70m N-S, 62mE-W) with trace of bank running NE from E and possible rectangular annexe/enclosure to the immediate W visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Traces of a second smaller enclosure or possible barrow (LI012-163----) 100m to the NW. Outline of monument clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken between 2009/2019.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 22 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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