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Field system

Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, Mitchelstowndown North, 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
Mitchelstowndown North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41847, -8.41087
SMR number
LI041-002001-

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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 wet pasture, 120m S of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Knocklong East. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as an earthwork complex or a possible field with a settlement system on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2572; Strip Map 4, Site 4/17) taken 03/11/1984. Linear cropmarks visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage. No clear house platforms or evidence of any settlement earthworks on aerial images.

See attached BGE aerial photograph (Strip Map 4 Site 4/17) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 23 June 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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