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Earthwork

Ash Hill, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ash Hill, 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
Ash Hill
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.39817, -8.58108
SMR number
LI047-020----

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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 immediately S of a forestry plantation, formerly on S bank of Ash Hill Lough that has been drained, on the former demesne lands of Ash Hill Towers, that lies 330m to SW. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch as a small semi-circular-shaped platform (dims c. 21m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) defined by a drain from NW-N-E with scarp elsewhere. Outline of earthwork delimited by bushes is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain about antiquity of earthwork which is located on the S shoreline of a lake that has been drained in modern times and replanted with coniferous plantation.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 27 August 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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