Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mass-rock
Lackanascarry, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackanascarry
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Carriganaffrin
- Latest-edition OS map
- Carriganafrin (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.56018, -8.36466
- SMR number
- LI024-157----
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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
Just below the summit of Knockseefin, immediately N of townland boundary with Gortnanuv and 100m SW of burial mound (LI024-012----) standing on top of Knockseefin. Annotated ‘Carriganaffrin’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted as a cliff-edge face of an old quarry on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018 now partially covered with scrub vegetation.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 21 July 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.