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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41105, -8.38217
- SMR number
- LI049-027002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 wet pasture, 25m S of townland boundary with Raheenamadra. In the NW quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-027001/009-). Not marked on the OSi 6-inch maps. Potential earthwork identified as a rectangular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2779, Site 252) taken 03/11/1984. Trace of monument visible as rectangular cropmark (dims. c. 10m x 10m) N of a relic watercourse running E-W on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage date 18/11/2018. Doubtful antiquity.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.