Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilgarriff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarriff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.35208, -8.37710
- SMR number
- LI057-068----
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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 reclaimed grassland. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Partially hachured on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a small semi-circular shaped earthwork or mound transected at N by post-1700 field boundary running E-W. No surface remains visible of earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Uncertain about antiquity of feature. This field is shown as a wooded area on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shallow depression (diam. c. 17m) of levelled earthwork visible on Google earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 20 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.