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
- 52.44401, -8.53102
- SMR number
- LI040-053----
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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 S of possible barrows (LI040-049007/011-) Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible cropmark site (No. 040242) identified as a potential site visible as a circular shaped soil or grass discolouration during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2551) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Relic field boundary running NW-SE visible on Google Earth orthoimages. A well is marked in this area on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Doubtful antiquity.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (2551, Site No. 040242) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.