Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Nicker, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicker
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57796, -8.34281
- SMR number
- LI024-116----
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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 reclaimed pasture, with forestry to N and S, on the floodplain of the Dead River and the Mulkear River which are 530m and 655m to N respectively. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 139: AP 4/3722). Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 27m NE-SW x 17m NW-SE) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and is not visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.