Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mortgage, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mortgage
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53051, -8.61702
- SMR number
- LI022-168----
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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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In lowlying gently undulating pasture. Barrow (LI022-133----) lies 220m to NW. Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified as a circular cropmark from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 44). No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. Partial cropmark of enclosure visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Faint outline of a circular cropmark shown onDigital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 11 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.