Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40980, -8.38062
- SMR number
- LI049-027001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In wet pasture, earthworks associated with a group of monuments (LI049-027001-/009-). Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Earthwork complex identified as a series of linear cropmarks which may be the remains of a field system on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2779, Site 250) taken 03/11/1984. Linear cropmarks visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 4 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.