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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Ballymurphy, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Ballymurphy, 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
Ballymurphy
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.58003, -8.66807
SMR number
LI022-010----

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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

On a S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views from N-E-S and which are restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Old Crecora church (LI022-009001-) and graveyard (LI022-009002-) 235m to W and a fulacht fiadh (LI022-012----) lies 225m to E. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as an oval-shaped area (68m NNE-SSW; 52m WNW-ESE) defined by a very low scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) which is indistinct from the surrounding field in places. The interior has a gentle rise from the edge of the scarp to the centre, which is flat. There is no obvious entrance. The site is enclosed around the base of the scarp by a timber picket fence. This appears to be a designed landscape feature in the form of a grove of trees and is associated with Ballymurphy House located 375m to N. Monument is visible as a large oval-shaped tree-planted feature on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 11 August 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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