Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cummeen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cummeen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55065, -8.80767
- SMR number
- LI021-119----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating pasture, 200m SE of the N21 road. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as a possible enclosure from examination of 1:4000 OSi aerial photographs (OS2 No. 6641) where it is visible a circular feature or cropmark (Adare Bypass Constraint Study, Ref. 31/A/1, p. 41). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.