Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathjordan, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathjordan
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54465, -8.46181
- SMR number
- LI023-219----
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 low-lying, improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 25m to NW and 65m to S. Ring-barrow (LI023-338----) lies 135m to WSW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a pennanular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 150: AP 4/3662). Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped enclosure (35m NW-SE; 31m NE-SW) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/08/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages 05/04/2006 and 26/08/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 150.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.