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Road - road/trackway

Stephenstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - road/trackway, Stephenstown, 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
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----

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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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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