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Field system

Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Rathmore South, 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
Rathmore South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51681, -8.64047
SMR number
LI031-016----

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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

In low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 350m SW of a townland boundary with Rathmore North. A moated site (LI031-020001-) and a standing stone (LI031-020002-) lie 165m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument is visible as an irregular-shaped area (ha/acres) containing linear and curvilinear-shaped cropmarks, some intersecting at right angles and which appear to suggest an earlier field system. Monument is visible as a series of linear and curvilinear cropmarks on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 30 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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