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Earthwork

Cush, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Cush, 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
Cush
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Cois Mote, hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.38885, -8.44057
SMR number
LI048-035----

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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, 180m S of townland boundary with Ballinvreena. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (dims. c. 24m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a scarp with fosse from S-W-NW. Annotated ‘Cois Mote’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Monument visible as shown on the historic OSi maps on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimages. The tree lined relic post-1700 field boundaries at SE-E-NE visible on aerial images may represent an external bank.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 23 August 2021

References

Westropp, T.J. 1919 The ancient places of assembly in the counties Limerick and Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 1-24.

Westropp, T.J. 1916-19 The Later Pagan Sanctuaries of Co. Limerick. Journal of the North Munster Antiquarian Society 4, 2, 122-48, 157-83.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Westropp, T.J. 1918 Temair Erann, an Ancient Cemetery of the Ernai on Slievereagh, County Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, 111-20.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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