Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glascurram, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glascurram
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61238, -8.74762
- SMR number
- LI012-046----
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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
In grassland 150m E of a public road and 20m N of the townland boundary with Kilcolman. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped area defined by a scarp with the ruins of a rectangular building immediately to S. Monument depicted on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (approx. int. diam. 47m; approx. ext. diam. 53m) defined by a scarp. No surface remains visible of levelled monument. The N half of this partially levelled monument is clearly visible on Digital Globe orthphotos taken 2011-13. On Google Earth orthoimage taken 2019 traces of the levelled N half of the monument are visible. This image shows possible field clearance material in the centre of the site and a field boundary running E-W through the centre and extending W for a distance of c. 20m.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.