Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Cromwell, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromwell
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50058, -8.37819
- SMR number
- LI033-079001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture on the SE slope of Cromwell Hill. Enclosure (LI033-079002-) lies 20m to S and earthwork (LI033-171----) 20m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 119; AP 5/2024) as an enclosure. Monument is visible in the NE corner of field as a sub-circular-shaped area (32m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a shallow fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 119 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.