Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Castle-Erkin South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castle-Erkin South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58939, -8.43056
- SMR number
- LI014-139----
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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
Situated in NE corner of a field of undulating pasture, with good views to W and S, two barrows (LI014-125/126----) lie c. 20m to the SSE. Site of Castle-Erkin (LI014-088002-) 190m to NW. Site surveyed by the ASI in 2005 and described as consisting of an oval-shaped area (30m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (Wth. 3.8m; H 0.4m) from NNW to SSE and by a fosse (Wth. 3.5m) at NW and from NNW to SSE, with an external bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth. 1.3m; ext H 0.2m) visible from NNE to SSE. The faint outline of the monument is visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2005-2012. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 7 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.