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Earthwork

Gormanstown (Phillips), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, 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
52.44339, -8.49805
SMR number
LI040-066004-

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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 115m NW of the ruins of Gormanstown Castle (LI040-066003-). Enclosure (LI040-066001-) lies to immediate SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 110; AP 5/2118) as a possible enclosure. Outline of monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 32m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 where it is intersected at SW by field drain running NW-SE. Partial outline of possible earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Faint cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 with drainage ditches located to NW and SE.

See attached Bruff aerial photograph (110) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 25 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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