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Enclosure

Cloghnadromin, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cloghnadromin, 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
Cloghnadromin
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62281, -8.49254
SMR number
LI014-152----

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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

Located in poorly drained rough pasture, ringfort (LI014-032----) 150m to N, trackway (LI014-128----) 140m to S and enclosure (LI014-150----) 170m to NW. Outline of monument clearly visible on OSi aerial photographs. Remains consist of a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) defined by a scarp with post-1700 drainage channels visible in field. Google Earth image taken 2017 shows cropmark with dried up river course to the S.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 3 July 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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