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
- 52.43572, -8.49749
- SMR number
- LI040-068----
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 wet pasture 55m E of the townland boundary with Balline. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a potential cropmark on Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs (BGE 1:5000, 2556 Site No. 0402145 taken 03/11/1984. Outline of monument visible as faint circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Uncertain about antiquity of feature identified on aerial photograph.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 26 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.