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Designed landscape - tree-ring

Killeline, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - tree-ring, Killeline, 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
Killeline
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.44354, -9.04869
SMR number
LI036-078----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In grounds of golf course, within small coniferous grove to N of golf green and on level ground. Roughly circular area (24.3m N-S; 23.4m E-W) enclosed by a scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2.6m), with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.85m) NE->SE. Interior level. Northern three-quarters of site is covered by coniferous trees, rest is under grass. Excavation by Lar Dunne (2003, 312) concluded that this feature is a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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