Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41508, -8.40778
- SMR number
- LI049-003----
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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 250m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Mitchelstown West. Possible moated site (LI049-002----) lies 130m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2573 Site No. 4/32) taken 03/11/1984 where it is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 22m). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of cropmark visible on on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 8 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.