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Earthwork

Gortyvahane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Gortyvahane, 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
Gortyvahane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54399, -8.24312
SMR number
LI025-021----

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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 improved pasture abutting a stream forming the townland boundary with Ooolahills East on it SW side. The site has good views to NW to NE and reasonable views in other directions. Enclosure (LI025-019----) located 200m to WSW and enclosure (LI025-024----) located 280m to E. The site is depicted as an oval-shaped earthwork on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a circular shaped earthwork or platform (ext. dims. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area of scrub woodland on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 1999 when the site could not be surveyed due to dense cover of rushes and other scrub vegetation hampering surface inspection. The outline of a scrub covered monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 11/03/2014 and 18/11/2018.

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Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 21 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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