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Designed landscape - ornamental canal

Bulgadenhall, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - ornamental canal, Bulgadenhall, 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
Bulgadenhall
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.43058, -8.51961
SMR number
LI040-261----

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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, on the demesne lands of Bulgaden Hall (LI040-056----) which lies 367m to the W. A stream which marks the townland boundary lies 10m to E. An enclosure (LI040-230----) lies 75m to the SW. Possible remains of an ornamental pond or canal of post-1700 dated associated with Bulgaden Hall. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a long rectangular sunken shaped area (dims. c. 212m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp from SW-W-N-E-SE. Identified as an earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (AP 5/2116). Monument visible as a rectangular shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. No earthwork is depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.

See attached Bruff survey image and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 6 July 2021

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 349/23 on 05/01/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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