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Earthwork

Mitchelstowndown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Mitchelstowndown, 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
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40551, -8.38184
SMR number
LI049-028----

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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 pasture, immediately S of the Morningstar River that forms the townland boundary with Mitchesltowndown East. Possible barrows (LI049-029002/004-) lie 90m to the NE. Not marked on 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 249) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. The earthwork appears to be the remains of a levelled building with attached field boundary depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.

See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 13 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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