Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 52.44872, -8.52653
- SMR number
- LI040-055001-
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 reclaimed pasture, immediately E of townland boundary with Tankardstown, associated with a cluster of possible barrows (LI040-055002/006-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Field system (Site No. 040238) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2552) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Linear cropmarks visible on aerial photograph represent the remains of drainage channels and are not the remains of a pre-1700 field system.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/5000 2552) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 27 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.