Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cultivation ridges
Gormanstown (phillips), County Limerick, Ireland
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-
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. 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
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.