Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castlefarm, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlefarm
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48211, -8.43401
- SMR number
- LI032-146001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, on a farm trackway, on the outskirts of Hospital village, 400m NE of a townland boundary with Millfarm. An enclosure (LI032-146002-) lies 190m to SE, on Hospital Hill. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as an earthwork complex from examination of oblique aerial photograph taken 20/07/1968 (CUCAP AVT025). Linear earthworks visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12.
See attached CUCAP orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 352/3 taken on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.