Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Curraghafoil, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghafoil
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.66090, -8.20553
- SMR number
- LI008-008----
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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 N-facing slope of elevated blanket bog, with good views from W-N-E. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999, and described as no surface remains visible. Described on an ASI index card as a circular-shaped banked enclosure (SMR file). A possible curvilinear bank is visible c. 16m to SE on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 11/03/2014.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.