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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
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51579, -8.62985
SMR number
LI031-025001-

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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 and bound by a townland boundary with Dunkip along the S boundary. Ringfort (LI031-025002-) is within the S half. Subrectangular-shaped area (14ha/35 acres) containing linear-shaped cropmarks, some intersecting at right angles to form a field pattern. Identified by 1:10,000 Bord Gais Eireann aerial photographs (No. 36) and on Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photographs (ASIAP 308, 32; 329, 6) taken 13/09/2002 and 05/10/2002) as a series of intersecting linear cropmarks in the vicinity of ringfort (LI031-025002-); one field still remains part of the modern field system. Monument is visible as a series of faint linear-shaped cropmarks on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013, although these are not evident on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bord Gais Eireann aerial photo and ASIAP.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 2 November 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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