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Burial ground

Castlequarter (Coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Castlequarter, 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
Castlequarter (Coshlea By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Burial Ground (Disused) (1927)
Coordinates
52.29776, -8.20987
SMR number
LI060-002----

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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, on crest of hill on slight ESE facing slope. Annotated 'Burial ground' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as an oval shaped earthwork. Only a short section of the SE quadrant of this enclosure survives above ground where it consist of two earthen banks (L 18m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 0.25m), transected at NE by a road running NW-SE. Inner bank (top Wth 3.05m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.2m) terminated at S by bush visible on aerial images, outer bank (top Wth 1.7m; ext. H 0.4m) has a sharper profile than the inner bank which may suggest that it was a later enclosing feature. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 30m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/01/2020.

See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 27 October 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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