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Historical OSI Map - Identifying a Feature

  • 03-05-2013 9:40am
    #1
    larkair
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi all,

    I'm looking at historical Ordnance Survey maps of my area and I'm trying to identify a particular feature.

    There are 2 maps (see attachment) - the first is a 6" map resulting from surveys done between 1829 and 1842 and the second is a 25" map dating from between 1887 and 1913.


    As you can see the feature changes between the first and second surveys. Is it some type of ring fort in the first map? It looks very regular. All that remains today is half a mound topped by trees.

    Any ideas or has anyone come across anything similar?

    All input appreciated...


Comments

  • #2
    gwjones42
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭gwjones42


    Hmmm....Interesting.......any chance of a broader screen shot, or the coordinates? The wider view could add a bit of context.


  • #3
    belcampprisoner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    can you give us the link of the map


  • #4
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    It could be a C19th garden feature, a motte or a rath although perhaps a little small for the latter. It could be any number of things.

    Very difficult to say with so little information.


  • #5
    muckish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭muckish


    Yes context required, but looks like something connected with a formal garden. Maybe a fountain that got abandoned? If it was an antiquity there would be a name beside it.

    So post a link to the map on the osi website and you'll get a better range of answers.


  • #6
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,221 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    There are thousands of unmarked antiquities on the 1st ed. mapping series. The absence of annotation to that effect does not preclude this feature from being an early earthwork.
    It could just as easily date from the Bronze Age as the C19th.


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  • #7
    GetWithIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭GetWithIt


    Click the Historic Layers option on the right. Toggle everything on and click Apply. If there's something unusual in the vicinity a red dot and label indicating what it is will display.

    Then post the url here to sate everyone's curiosity.


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