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Earthwork

Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Mitchelstowndown North, 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
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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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 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

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

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