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Enclosure

Linfield, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Linfield, 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
Linfield
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56841, -8.37084
SMR number
LI024-122----

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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

On N-facing slope, in pasture, 37m NW of the townland boundary with Bunavie. A church and burial ground (LI024-010001-/002-) lie 130m to N, a holy well (LI024-010003-) lies 160m to NNW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped tree-planted enclosure (approx. dims. 28m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW) and not as an antiquity. Not depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map, where the area is bisected by a linear field boundary running NNW-SSE. Possible monument identified as a semicircular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 119: AP 4/3719). Visible as a semicircular-shaped earthwork (35m ENE-WSW; 27m NNW-SSE), to the E side of a field boundary, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. There is no visible trace of the earthwork on the WSW side of the field boundary. Possibly a tree-plantation of post-1700 date as depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map.

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Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 23 July 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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