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Field system

Tankardstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, 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
52.44872, -8.52653
SMR number
LI040-055001-

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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)
  • 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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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