Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41894, -8.40481
- SMR number
- LI041-006----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 65m S of townland boundary with Knocklong East, a possible barrow(LI041-042----) lies 80m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site consisting of a partial cropmark visible from SW-W-N of what may have been a levelled ringfort on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Strip Map 4, Site 4/14) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph strip map 4 site 4/14 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.