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Enclosure

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Blossomhill, 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
Blossomhill (Connello Lower By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially Indicated
Coordinates
52.53269, -8.91527
SMR number
LI020-182001-

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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 flat undulating pasture 110m N of the townland boundary with Rathkeale Commons. Located 265m NNE of a ringfort (LI029-037----). The site is depicted as an oval-shaped field (ext. diam. c. 25m N-S; 22m E-W) and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map or subsequent maps. A small portion of the W side of the enclosure boundary may be preserved in a surviving field boundary visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The location of the site is visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/02/2009, 08/04/2015 and 28/06/2018.

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload/revision: 13 March 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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