Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cloghaviller, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghaviller
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53251, -8.45263
- SMR number
- LI023-099005-
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
In wet, low-lying pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses. Enclosure (LI023-099001-) lies 100m to SE and ring-barrows (LI023-099003-/004-/002-) lie 110m to ESE, 130m to N and 150m to SE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. This monument is an additional part of an earthwork complex described by O’Kelly as following: 'A complex of 2 earthworks of Type A and 3 ring-barrows (O’ Kelly 1943, 172). Monument identified as an earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 130.1). Monument is visible as a very faint, roughly oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017.
See attached Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 130.1 and Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.