Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.40632, -8.38323
- SMR number
- LI049-025----
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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, 50m N of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown. Possible moated site (LI049-022----) lies 110m to the NW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 18m NE-SW x 16m NW-SE) defined by a scarp transected at W by drainage channel running N-S. Cropmark of monument visible on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Strip Map 4, Site 4/4) taken 03/11/1984. Outline of monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 20011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.