Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Killeagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56852, -8.44802
- SMR number
- LI023-294----
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 low-lying, wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. An enclosure (LI023-164----) lies 145m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by low-altitude oblique aerial photography taken by the ASI in 2002, as a substantial suboval-shaped cropmark (ASIAP 309, 13 & 14). Monument is visible as a large oval-shaped cropmark (43m ENE-WSW; 32m NNW-SSE) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph labelled ASIAP 309 (13 & 14) taken 13/09/2002.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 14 September 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.