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Designed landscape - ornamental lake

Island Dromagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - ornamental lake, Island Dromagh, 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
Island Dromagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
52.41518, -8.41752
SMR number
LI048-071----

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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 wet pasture, in the SE corner of a coniferous plantation, 28m W of townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown North. An enclosure (LI048-023----) lies 100m to the S. Depicted as a pond on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and not as an antiquity. Indicated as a non-antiquity where it is shown as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 33m E-W) indicated with a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. Visible as a rush covered dried up pond on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Pond feature possibly a natural water feature or a designed landscape pond associated with nearby country houses.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 27 May 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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