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
- 52.42063, -8.41558
- SMR number
- LI040-289----
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 wet pasture immediately N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Island Dromagh. Field system (LI040-136----) lies to immediate E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Visible as linear cropmarks on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5,000 2571, Strip map 4, site 4/19) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a pattern of linear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each, located over a large area (dims. c. 500m NW-SE x 220m NE-SW) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Earthworks visible on aerial photographs appear to form part of possible field system (LI040-136----). Possible duplicate site with adjoining field system (LI040-136----)
See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 July 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 343/17 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.