Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.44365, -8.50695
- SMR number
- LI040-063003-
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 within the demesne lands of Gormanstown Castle (LI040-066003-) located 700m to E. Possible enclosure (LI040-63004-) lies 20m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential site on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs (BGE 1:5000, 2555 Site No. 040220) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload:26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.