Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Hammondstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hammondstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42057, -8.42520
- SMR number
- LI040-125----
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 reclaimed pasture, a possible enclosure (LI040-123----) lies 100m to the W. Not marked on the OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular feature on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2571, Strip map 4, 4/41) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Trace of monument visible as rectangular cropmark (dims. c. 33m N-S x 30m E-W) intersected at S by relic watercourse running roughly E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 14/09/2019.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.