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Enclosure

Lissatotan (Connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Lissatotan, 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
Lissatotan (Connello Lower By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.53633, -9.02951
SMR number
LI019-205----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 marshy pasture, near base of gentle SE-facing slope. Oval area (52m N-S; 72m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 2m). Bank (int. H 0.8m ext. H 0.75m) best preserved W->N. Dip in bank (Wth 2.4m) at SE; cattle breaks at SSE (Wth 1.5m) and WSW (Wth 2.9m). Waterlogged fosse best preserved NE->E, is fed by leat from stream at SE. Slight trace of counterscarp bank along SE arc (H 0.25m). Interior under pasture; sub-rectangular area (15m N-S; 14m E-W) against internal bank face at E enclosed by slightly curved earthen bank (H 0.4m). W half of interior higher than remainder with low earth-and-stone bank (H 0.3m) on a rough N-S axis separating level difference.
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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