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Enclosure

Courtbrack, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Courtbrack, 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
Courtbrack
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65295, -8.64985
SMR number
LI005-076----

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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)
  • 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

In a small, level green area, in Ashdown Student Village, at the S corner of an oil storage depot and bordering an undeveloped greenfield plot to W and NW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation, during the course of field survey in this area. Described by O'Rahilly as at the E end of this open field there is a well-defined curvilinear scarp (approx. H 1.5m) visible from SW-W-NW. The exterior of the scarp is strewn with stone, some quite large, which could be the remains of stone facing or collapse from a masonry structure. The area to the E and S is level with the rest of the field. Not visible today on Google Earth orthophoto taken 02/07/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 02/07/2018 and location map by O'Rahilly showing location of the possible monument.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 26 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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