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Earthwork

Rathanny, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Rathanny, 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
Rathanny
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46276, -8.47000
SMR number
LI040-018002-

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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 wet rough pasture, 90m SE of townland boundary with Bottomstown. ‘Tobergobban’ holy well(LI040-017-) and graveyard (LI040-018001-) lie 60m and 40m to the NW respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 60; AP 5/2073) as a circular area defined by a fosse from SSW-W-N-NE, intersected at E by a drainage ditch running N-S. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Outline of earthwork (diam. c. 17m) visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthophotos.

See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 60 and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 19 May 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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