Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coolbreedeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbreedeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.67168, -8.44947
- SMR number
- LI006-027----
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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
In flat pasture 1.5km E of the Killeenagarriff River. Ringfort (LI006-014----) located 250m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. The site is description is based upon its illustration on the 1897 OS 25-inch map and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 where a circular enclosure (diam. c. 29m) is visible. Possible faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthophoto
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.