Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mondellihy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mondellihy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57434, -8.77648
- SMR number
- LI021-145----
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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, with moderate views in all directions, to the immediate S of a former townland boundary with Gortaganniff (now removed). A pair of ringforts (LI021-011001-/002-) lie 140m to W. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 52/A/3, p. 63). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. 36m N-S; 29m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.