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
- 52.40868, -8.38033
- SMR number
- LI049-027006-
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, in the SW quadrant of a group of monuments (LI049-027001/009-). Not marked on the OSi 6-inch maps. Potential earthwork identified as circular cropmark on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2779, Site 244) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.