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Enclosure - large enclosure

Garrane More, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Garrane More, 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
Garrane More
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.57045, -8.33932
SMR number
LI024-021----

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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 improved pasture, on a N-facing slope, c. 75m E of a townland boundary with Nicker. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a potential site on aerial photographs (GSIAP R424). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible, although there are slight linear undulations and low ridges across this area. Levelled monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped cropmark (110m NW-SE; 95m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage 18/11/2018

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 26 September 2020

References

GSIAP - Geological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1973). Geological Survey. Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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