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
- 52.44929, -8.53120
- SMR number
- LI040-051----
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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 small grove of trees. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not visible due to dense cover of vegetation. Described by O’Kelly (1942, 52-3) as a 'Type B earthwork' consisting of; ‘A very small structure situated on the top of a mound which may be natural or partly artificial. It consists of a slight platform on the edge of which there is a bank surrounded on the outside by a fosse. The overall diameter is 36’ [10.9m]. The mound on which it stands has been cut on the one side by the public road and on the other by a drainage trench’.
Levelled monument described by Westropp (1916-17, 492) as; 'To the east of the road, which cut off an angle of field near a little stream, is a very small house-ring. I found no one to explain, but it was unmown and ungrazed, and may be an old burial-place. It is oval, only 21 feet [6.4m] north and south and 24 feet [7.3m] east and west inside; its ring, hardly a foot high inside, rises 4 feet [1.2m] over a fosse 3 feet [0.9m] deep and 6 feet [1.8m] wide, the ring being of the same width.’
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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.