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Enclosure

Dooneen Upper, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dooneen Upper, 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
Dooneen Upper
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.58640, -8.68200
SMR number
LI022-185----

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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)
  • 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 pasture on a slight E-facing slope 20m NE of townland boundary with Logavinshire. Identified as Site 21 by Celie O’Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation as part of an archaeological assessment for the development of a racecourse at Greenmount, Co. Limerick. It was described as following; ‘a low bank defining a semicircular area ca. 30m in diameter which has been cut by a cattle yard on the west side ’ (O‘Rahilly 1995). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described as no enclosing element visible. Monument visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 but not on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached location map by Celie O'Rahilly showing location of site 21.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date upload: 11 August 2020

References

O’Rahilly, C 1995 Archaeological report for the proposed racecourse at Greenmount Co. Limerick. Unpublished report, Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd

Nearby in the register

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

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