Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Tankardstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tankardstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44726, -8.53289
- SMR number
- LI040-049008-
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 rough wet pasture, in NE quadrant of a group of barrows (LI040-049001-/007-; LI040-049009-/011-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (No. 040248) identified as a rectangular-shaped cropmark, immediately W of a drainage ditch running N-S on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, 2551) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Possible monument partially visible as a square-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. Google Earth orthoimage dated 25/03/2017 shows a farm building immediately to N of monument.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline (No. 040248) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.