Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ardrahin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardrahin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39578, -8.29238
- SMR number
- LI049-156001-
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 reclaimed pasture, 200m S of the River Aherlow that marks the townland boundary with Galbally. Earthwork with Killenellig Church site (LI049-156002-) in centre. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 27m N-S; 30m E-W defined by a scarp, with fosse and outer bank from SW-W-N-NE, incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary from E-S-SW. Levelled earthwork visible as an irregular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.