Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Currahchase, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Currahchase
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.59135, -8.86215
- SMR number
- LI011-147----
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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 a knoll, in mixed woodland, on the grounds of Currah Chase House located 590m to WSW. Depicted as a circular-shaped tree plantation and not as an antiquity on the OS 25-inch map where it is shown as a suboval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 34m), with a subrectangular-shaped annexe (approx. dims. 27m N-S x 30m E-W) partially conjoined to E. Obscured by woodland on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.