Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Skoolhill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skoolhill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55680, -8.55816
- SMR number
- LI022-244----
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 the N-facing slope of Skool Hill, in pasture, with good views from W-N-E and restricted elsewhere. The townland boundary with Loughanstown lies 130m to N. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large oval-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 9003: AP4/3697). Monument is visible as a substantial rectangular-shaped cropmark (72m E-W; 47m N-S) with a rectangular-shaped enclosure (66m N-S; 47m E-W) adjoining to E, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 01/10/2015.
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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.