Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Maddyboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maddyboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.65251, -8.45474
- SMR number
- LI006-050----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Monument survives as an oval-shaped field in grassland 160m W of a local road and approx. 170m SW of a stream that forms the townland boundary with Coolnahila. The tree-covered perimeter is intersected by field boundaries at SW, NW, NE and SE. Depicted as a large oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a roughly oval shaped area (approx. int. dims. 82m NE-SW x 55m NW-SE) defined by a scarp with spring well 25m to the SE. Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018 shows the monument as an oval-shaped field enclosed by a tree-covered a gap in SE that could be a modern livestock entrance. An external ditch is visible on this image from SE through S to SW.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 10 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.