Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coonagh East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coonagh East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66405, -8.68282
- SMR number
- LI005-056----
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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On low-lying poorly drained pasture, c. 715m N of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation, as a large oval-shaped cropmark on OSi 1:10k aerial photography (Ref. OS2/746, Photo No. 0793) taken 1985. Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 37m NE-SW x 31m NW-SE) on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. A number of linear features possibly drainage channels are also visible to E.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 24 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Causewayunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.