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Earthwork

Ballintaw, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballintaw, 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
Ballintaw
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.49339, -8.64255
SMR number
LI031-057----

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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 reclaimed pasture, enclosure (LI031-056----) lies 226m to SW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform (dims. c. 22m N-S x 27m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse from N-E-S-SE only. Bisected by a drainage ditch running NW-SE across W quadrant. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 23 March 2021

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/34 & 35 taken 13/09/2002.

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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