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Earthwork

Rahard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Rahard, 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
Rahard
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.52125, -8.30889
SMR number
LI033-042----

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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 wet pasture 60m W of a road that marks the townland boundary with Newtown. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform 10m N of farm track running E-W and 80m NW of a spring. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. 16m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) defined by a scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.3m) with external fosse (top Wth 5.9m; base Wth 1.9m; D 0.15m) visible from SE-WSW. E side of monument is irregular in shape and may have been altered in antiquity. Described in 1960 as a; ’low platform 60 feet (18m) in diameter and 3 feet [0.9m] high with faint traces of a bank at its edge. Portion of the eastern half shows signs of disturbance’ (O’Dwyer 1960, 98; Rahard 76). Outline of levelled monument visible as a cropmark defined by a circular growth of rushes on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 where a drainage ditch to E divides wet pasture from drier land.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and profile of monument drawn by O'Dwyer 1964

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 March 2021

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1964 A Survey of the earthworks of the district of Old Pallasgrean (concluded). North Munster Antiquarian Journal 9, 94-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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