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Cultivation ridges

Gormanstown (Phillips), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cultivation ridges, Gormanstown (Phillips), 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
Gormanstown (Phillips)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44233, -8.50763
SMR number
LI040-063001-

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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. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential earthwork complex (possibly cultivation ridges and drainage ditches) on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs (BGE 1:5000, 2555 Site No. 040219) taken 03/11/1984. Cultivation ridges and linear drainage channels visible on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 where rough ground is intersected by linear drains running predominantly N-S and E-W. Earthworks consist of cultivation ridges and post-1700 drainage ditches.

See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 26 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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