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Enclosure

Carnane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Carnane, 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
Carnane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56859, -8.58429
SMR number
LI022-241----

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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

On a gently undulating ENE-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from NW-N and restricted elsewhere. The townland boundary with Arywee lies 280m to E. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps, although the area is occupied by a farmstead on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Identified as a large oval-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 74: AP4/3705). Monument surveyed in 2000 by the ASI and described as a raised oval-shaped area (20m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.6m) which is higher on the downslope where it has been raised from N-E-S and is lower on the upslope from S-W-N. A field boundary runs across the site to N of centre. The interior has a gentle E-facing slope. Monument is visible as a substantial oval-shaped cropmark (106m ESE-WNW; 96m NNW-SSE) which is best preserved from ESE-S-W-WNW, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 06/02/2018.

See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 16 August 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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