Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Stephenstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stephenstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43028, -8.48115
- SMR number
- LI040-098----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 60m E of the townland boundary with Adamstown. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an L-shaped suken depression on examination of Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 1:5,000 No. 2559; Site No. 040199) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on OSi orthoimages taken 200-12 or on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Possible cropmark of linear earthwork visible oon Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Possible trackway.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.