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Earthwork

Tankardstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Tankardstown, 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
Tankardstown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.45027, -8.53845
SMR number
LI040-047002-

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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 reclaimed pasture, immediately E of the townland boundary with Goatisland, in NW quadrant of a possible field system (LI040-047001-). A barrow complex (LI040-049001/011-) lies to the NE. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarp on OSi 25-inch map. Described by O’Kelly (1942, 53) as a 'Type A earthwork' consisting of; ‘A circular platform which has a slightly hollow centre. Outside it is a fosse and outer bank. It is not possible to say if the platform had a bank at its edge or not. The entrance is not recognisable and the fosse and outer bank are continuous all around. The height of the platform is about 4’ [1.2m] and the overall diameter is 150’ [45.7m]. The monument is visible on aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2549) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Partially levelled monument visible as a circular shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Trace of much degraded bank and wet external fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 10 May 2021

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.

Nearby in the register

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

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