Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Cowpark, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cowpark
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60809, -8.89382
- SMR number
- LI011-065002-
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
The National Museum of Ireland topographical files for Killeen Church (LI011-065001-) recorded that traces of a circle or enclosure are visible on OS sheet in close proximity to Killeen Church. The curving arc of an earthen bank 27m to the NW of the church is visible from WNW-NW on Digital Globe aerial photograph. This curving bank is depicted as a contour line on the current ed. OS 6-inch map and may have formed part of an ecclesiastical enclosure surrounding Killeen Church. No surface remains visible of any enclosure. An old quarry is now located in the area to the NW of the church which is visible as an area of scrub vegetation on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 19 April 2018
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.