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Earthwork

Derk, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Derk, 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
Derk
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52376, -8.34276
SMR number
LI033-036010-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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, on the demesne lands of Derk House located 490m to NNE. In the centre of a cluster of 14 barrows (LI033-036001/009; LI033-090/91-; LI033-121/122-; LI033-154----) concentrated in the S half of Derk townland. Regular pattern of linear ditches combined with upstanding field boundaries clearly visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. The linear ditches running roughly parallel to each other on a NW-SE axis feeding into drainage ditches indicated on OSi historic maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a linear mound (L 90m; Wth 3.5m; H 0.2m) running NW-SE defined by a channel (Wth 3.4m; D 0.25m) on either side with a similar mound and drains running perpendicular. Remains of drainage channels associated with land reclamation on the demesne lands of Derk House. Not the remains of a pre-1700 field system, no evidence for pattern of fields and no evidence for any cultivation ridges.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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