Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Thomastown (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Thomastown (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38294, -8.62493
- SMR number
- LI047-095----
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 230m E of the townland boundary with Mountblakeney. Earthwork (LI047-042) lies 200m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible enclosure from aerial photographs (ASIAP). Faint trace of oval-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 33m N-S; 31m E-W) visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.