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Earthwork

Cromwell, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Cromwell, 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
Cromwell
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50063, -8.37885
SMR number
LI033-171----

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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 pasture on SE slope of Cromwell Hill. Earthwork (LI033-070----) lies 60m to NW and earthworks (LI033-079001/002-) 20m to SE and 20m to S respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Sarah McCutcheon, executive archaeologist, Limerick City and County Council in 2016 as a possible enclosure. Monument is visible as a sunken D-shaped area (dims. c. 8m N-S; 20m E-W) immediately S of a field boundary on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of circular cropmark, extending N at the rear of a modern dwelling is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 22 April 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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