Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tooraree Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tooraree Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.54100, -9.22516
- SMR number
- LI018-073----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop low rise. Roughly oval area (36m N-S; 48.8m E-W) defined by gradual scarped edge ( H 1m; Wth 6m) NW->SW; enclosure truncated by N-S field boundary SW->NW. Interior level and under grass. No entrance feature evident. External bank shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map from SE->S is no longer evident, nor is field boundary which continued line of bank to meet existing field boundary at SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.