Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Derk, County Limerick, Ireland
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-
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 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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.