What is recorded here
In wet pasture, in the SE corner of a coniferous plantation, 28m W of townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown North. An enclosure (LI048-023----) lies 100m to the S. Depicted as a pond on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and not as an antiquity. Indicated as a non-antiquity where it is shown as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 39m N-S; 33m E-W) indicated with a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. Visible as a rush covered dried up pond on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Pond feature possibly a natural water feature or a designed landscape pond associated with nearby country houses.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 27 May 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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