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Earthwork

Carrig More, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Carrig More, 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
Carrig More
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.57797, -8.24775
SMR number
LI025-007----

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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 steep WNW-facing slope, in pasture with excellent views from SW-W-N-NE and restricted elsewhere by Knockouragh Hill. Monument is 115m SE of a townland boundary with Moanduff. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped depression (21.5m N-S; 15m E-W) which may be the remains of an old quarry of post-1700 date. No monument depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Farm trackway built along boundary to E. Possible monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as no surface remains visible. Earthwork visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 11/03/2014. Of doubtful antiquity.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 11/03/2011

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 October 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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