Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Garrynderk North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynderk North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.37248, -8.64292
- SMR number
- LI047-065----
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 pasture 150m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Effin and 100m E of a railway track. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m N-S; 38m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area enclosed by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Visible as faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/04/2021 where it is truncated at N and S by field boundary running N-S.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.