Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ahacore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ahacore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64118, -8.43131
- SMR number
- LI014-169----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. ext. diam. 40m; int. diam. 26m) bisected by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of small circular feature 15m to E could be the remains of a possible ditch-barrow (LI014-170----). Cropmark of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. On this orthoimage the cropmark of the possible ditch-barrow is clearly visible to E.
See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 3 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.