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Earthwork

Howardstown South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Howardstown South, 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
Howardstown South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.44015, -8.68918
SMR number
LI039-055----

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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 improved pasture 100m W of the townland boundary with Dromacummer West. Not depicted as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map but shown as an oval-shaped earthwork. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 18m) defined by a scarp. Outline of the monument respected by curving drainage ditch from N-E-S. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as a slight hollow with possible water channel/ditch running out of SW side on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/03/2015.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 27 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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