Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Gormanstown (grady), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gormanstown (grady)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44319, -8.49852
- SMR number
- LI040-066001-
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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 125m NW of Gormanstown Castle (LI040-066003-). Enclosure (LI040-066004-) lies to immediate NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs taken 03/11/1984 (1:5,000 No. 2556) as a possible earthwork. Outline of monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 22m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 where it is intersected at NE by drainage channel running NW-SE. Visible as faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.