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Earthwork

Crean (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Crean, 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
Crean (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48360, -8.61340
SMR number
LI031-183----

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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

On wet flat pasture 720m NW of the Morningstar River and 230m E of the townland boundary with Carrigeen. Ringfort (LI031-098) located 370m to NW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps, possible traces visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 47: AP 4/2062) as two elements from a circular enclosure bisected by two field boundaries. The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and 24/09/2018. Of doubtful antiquity.

See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 47 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 6 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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