Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Bottomstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bottomstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44651, -8.47867
- SMR number
- LI040-217----
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 rough pasture, immediately N of an enclosure (LI040-218----). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a field system by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 96; AP 5/2104). Described by the ASI as a possible series of rectilinear enclosures (sub-divisions of a narrow field) visible on oblique aerial photograph taken 05/01/2003 (ASIAP (349) 18). Monument visible as rectilinear cropmarks (dims. c. 335m N-S x 170m E-W), some perpendicular to each other on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Field system clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage 20/03/2018 with relic field boundaries visible running E-W, depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A relic watercourse runs N-S and curves W in the SW quadrant of the field system.
See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 96, oblique aerial image (ASIAP (349) 18), Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 2 July 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.