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Earthwork

Bottomstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Bottomstown, 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
Bottomstown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.44524, -8.47777
SMR number
LI040-218----

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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 rough reclaimed pasture, immediately S of a field system (LI040-217----). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 95; AP 5/2104). Monument visible as a rectangular cropmark (dims. c. 66m N-S x 70m E-W) intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on the Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. The Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/03/2018 clearly shows the rectangular cropmark which is defined at S and E by relic field boundaries running N-S and E-W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is truncated at E and W by two relic watercourses running roughly N-S.

See attached Bruff survey image showing cropmark labelled Bruff 95 and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 3 July 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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