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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
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.45564, -8.53194
SMR number
LI040-050004-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 pasture, immediately S of townland boundary with Ballyvulhane, a mound (LI040-050005-) lies 50m to the NW. Possible site (Site No. 040116) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2553) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Strip Map 5, Site 5/8). Listed as 'Bruff 81' on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 81; AP 5/2108) as a rectangular-shaped enclosure . No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of rectangular shaped enclosure (dims. c. 28m E-W) on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (Site 5/8) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 6 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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