Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mountblakeney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountblakeney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38990, -8.64616
- SMR number
- LI047-035----
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 reclaimed pasture, 185m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballynagoul. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 24m E-W) defined by a scarp at W and N transected by post-1700 field boundary at E running N-S. Partial cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 which shows enclosing element to E of post-1700 field boundary. Levelled monument visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.