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
- 52.52197, -8.33695
- SMR number
- LI033-092----
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 25m E of a watercourse and 65m E of the townland boundary with Tonaree. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 76; AP 4/3626) as a roughly-rectangular shaped earthwork. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing possible monument labelled Bruff 76
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.