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Enclosure

Brackloon (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Brackloon, 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
Brackloon (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54877, -8.28707
SMR number
LI024-059----

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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 rough wet pasture, in SE corner of a field. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a semicircular-shaped earthwork, not indicated on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a D-shaped area (15.5m NNW-SSE) with straight side at SE (L 23m ENE-WSW) defined by a scarp and fosse truncated at SSE by a field boundary running ENE-WSW. The scarp (H 0.7m; Wth 1.3m) is visible from WSW-N-ENE. The remains of a fosse (overall Wth 5m; basal Wth 1.7m; D 0.2m) are visible from W-NNW. The interior is grass covered and undulating. A subtriangular-shaped area adjoins the scarp at NW and is defined by linear bank (L 12m; Wth 2.7m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.3m) running WNW-ESE, to S and with a short return (L 8m) running NNE-SSW, to E. Monument visible as a semicircular-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 July 2020

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

Nearby in the register

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

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