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Earthwork

Graig, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Graig, 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
Graig
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured
Coordinates
52.43689, -8.78980
SMR number
LI038-166----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 rough pasture on N-facing slope, 95m E of townland boundary with Ballyguileataggle. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sunken rectangular-shaped area or hollow depression (dims. c. 18m N-S x 18m E-W) in the NE corner of field transected at N and E post-1700 field boundaries running NW-SE and N-S. Monument visible as a scrub-covered roughly circular shaped area transected at N and E by levelled field boundaries on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Doubtful antiquity could be the remains of a small quarry or gravel pit.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 17 April 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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