Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountminnett, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountminnett
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54598, -8.42933
- SMR number
- LI023-220----
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 35m to E. Ring-barrow (LI023-275----) lies 220m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 155: AP 4/3663). Monument is clearly visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 32m) on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 and is visible as a faint circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 155.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 8 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 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.