Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Curraghturk, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghturk
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36718, -8.32892
- SMR number
- LI049-183----
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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 at edge of conifer plantation and 40m S of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Ballylanders. Enclosure (LI049-184----) lies 200m to NE. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 35m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Truncated at E by a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 21/06/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.