Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cross (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cross (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56048, -8.30359
- SMR number
- LI024-058003-
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 a slightly raised area, on a N-facing slope, in rough wet pasture. Possible ringfort (LI024-058----) lies c. 62m to WNW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as an oblong rectangular-shaped enclosure on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 111: AP4/3676). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.