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
- 52.55290, -8.80480
- SMR number
- LI021-157003-
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
On a slight S-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from E-S-W, which are restricted elsewhere. Possible enclosure (LI021-157002-) lies 20m to W. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as an enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 31/A/4, p. 41). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised penannular-shaped area (diam. 17m) enclosed by the remains of a low bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m; Wth 2.8m) visible from ESE-S-W-N-NNE, best preserved from S-SSW-SW. The interior has a slight S-facing slope, is dry and clear of overgrowth. Monument is visible as a pennanular-shaped tree-lined earthwork 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: 6 August 2020
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.