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
- 52.44339, -8.49805
- SMR number
- LI040-066004-
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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 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.