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Enclosure

Skool, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Skool, 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
Skool
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54736, -8.56226
SMR number
LI022-250----

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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, 160m N of the Camoge River, which also forms the townland boundary with Grange. A cluster of five barrows (LI022-258/259/260/261/262----) lie 260m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped feature on OSi aerial photographs taken 2005-12. Visible as a rectangular-shaped area (63m NW-SE; 40m ENE-WSW) of scrub defined by a drainage channel in field of tillage on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 28 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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