Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Creevebeg, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Creevebeg
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45908, -8.71003
- SMR number
- LI038-043----
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 pasture, immediately S of townland boundary with Ballyphilip. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a D-shaped area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a scarp truncated at N by a townland boundary running NE-SW. Not marked on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, indicating that the monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. Faint trace of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 20 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.