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Designed landscape - folly

Derk, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - folly, Derk, 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
Derk
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1928)
Coordinates
52.53326, -8.33592
SMR number
LI024-074----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 steep NNE-facing slope, on the demesne lands of Derk House which stands 360m to SSW. A circular tower or folly (LI024-075----) stands 100m to SSW. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 12m) enclosed by intermittent traces of a low earthen bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.17m) from ESE-S-W reduced to a scarp (H 1.35m) visible from W-N-E-ESE with traces of a possible fosse at SW. The interior has a steep NNE-facing slope and there is a large conglomerate boulder (H 3m) in the N quadrant. The interior and bank are planted with Beech trees. Probable tree-ring of Derk House demesne. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 19 July 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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