Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rawleystown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rawleystown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not idnicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53549, -8.51797
- SMR number
- LI023-079----
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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
Fort described in 1943 as following; 'The first edition of the O.S. Map shows a fort beside the road from Herbertstown to Limerick. The fort is not shown on the edition of 1927. On the ground there is now no trace of it and no one can remember its existence' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 183). The outline of the monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Depicted as a quarry or pond feature on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and not depicted as an antiquity
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 February 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.