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Enclosure

Glascurram, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Glascurram, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glascurram
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined
Coordinates
52.61301, -8.75590
SMR number
LI012-045----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the N edge of farmyard with farm buildings standing on footprint of the enclosure. The earthwork is depicted as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp on the 1838 OS 6-inch map with a building standing on the enclosing element at S. Earthwork depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a non-antiquity where it is shown as an oval-shaped area or small paddock (approx. dims. 32m NW-SE x 23m NE-SW) indicated with a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. On the revised OS 6-inch map a building is depicted standing in the centre of the earthwork. Today only the enclosing element of the monument is visible as a field boundary from W through N to E on Digital Globe taken 2011-13. On this image the interior of the possible enclosure is covered with farm buildings.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 26/05/2004

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 18 June 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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