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Enclosure

Glen (Clanwilliam By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Glen, 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
Glen (Clanwilliam By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.55769, -8.37640
SMR number
LI024-155----

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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 pasture 20m S of the townland boundary with Gortnanuv. The 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map depicts a trackway running NW-SE through this area. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 63; AP 4/3681) as a circular-shaped cropmark in the N quadrant of the field on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 21 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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