Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clonmacken, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmacken
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65976, -8.66927
- SMR number
- LI005-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On low-lying poorly drained pasture, c. 120m to N of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified in the early 1990s by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist with Limerick. Co. Co. as a large circular-shaped cropmark visible on OSi aerial photography (Ref. OS 3/9134) taken 1985. Examination of these images was carried out in advance of the Limerick South Ring Road. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 32m) on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 18/03/2015.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.