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Earthwork

Moanroe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Moanroe, 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
Moanroe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54340, -8.24636
SMR number
LI025-019----

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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

In level pasture, with moderate views in all directions, 50m W of a townland boundary with Oolahills East. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised subcircular-shaped area (approx. diam. 25m) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.1m; H 0.4m) all around which is very eroded by livestock. The interior is level, dry and densely overgrown with vegetation and is only accessible from NE-E-S. Monument is visible as a faint, roughly circular-shaped scrub covered cropmark on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013, although is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 18 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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