Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Hernsbrook, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hernsbrook
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35634, -9.01258
- SMR number
- LI053-030----
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 rough wet pasture. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark on oblique aerial photograph taken 2006 (ASIAP). Monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached ASI aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 10 November 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.