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Earthwork

Lissard, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Lissard, 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
Lissard
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.41554, -8.31903
SMR number
LI041-036----

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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, 70m N of the townland boundary with Castlecreagh. Glenefy House lies 300m to SE. Not indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 30m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp. The monument is visible as an oval-shaped platform truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (318) 36) taken 05-10-2002. Visible as a sub-circular shaped platform with traces of an outer fosse from E-S-W, truncated at SE by drain running NW-SE on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.

See attached oblique aerial image (ASIAP (318) 36) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 15 July 2021

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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