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Hut site

Glen (Clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Hut site, Glen, 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
Glen (Clanwilliam By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55506, -8.36456
SMR number
LI024-044004-

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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 undulating and rough upland pasture, abutting a field boundary to E. Within W side of field system (LI024-044001-), 200m NW of a ringfort (LI024-045----) and 240m WSW of a hut site (LI024-304----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 72: AP 4/3681). Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark (12m E-W; 8m N-S) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 72.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 29 September 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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