Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cappanahanagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappanahanagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.66356, -8.41036
- SMR number
- LI006-033----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On rolling pasture on the SW of Boarmanshill on a low knoll on the immediate SW side of a pond in a glacial hollow with a view over Limerick City. A well annotated ‘Toberaguile’ is located 180m to the SW, a possible hilltop enclosure or royal fort of Lisgorey (LI007-002----) is located 850m to N, with a smaller ringfort (LI007-003----) 500m NNE. Depicted on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. The site description is based upon the 1897 OS 25-inch map which shows that the monument was incorporated into field boundaries with the levelling of the northern half of the earthwork. The enclosure is oval (dims. c. 27m NW-SE x 22m NE-SW). Visible as a low relief earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthophoto
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 23 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Deer parkunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.