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Enclosure

Doonvullen Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Doonvullen Lower, 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
Doonvullen Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56817, -8.47507
SMR number
LI023-290----

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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 low-lying and gently undulating pasture, 80m W of the Groody River. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a large suboval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 275: AP 4/3712). Monument is visible as a large sub-oval-shaped cropmark (55m ENE-WSW; 38m NNW-SSE) defined by a thin band of dark green rushes from ENE-S-WSW on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe aerial orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Area to N and E of monument has been planted with forestry as seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 275.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 14 September 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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