Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Gortnanuv, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnanuv
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55847, -8.36633
- SMR number
- LI024-156----
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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 the W slope of a hillock in undulating pasture, bisected by a townland boundary with Glen. Ringfort (LI024-043----) located 140m to NW. N half of enclosure identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 69; AP 4/3681) as a semi-circular shaped area (approx. dims. 17m NE-SW x 12m NW-SE) delimited by a bank with etxernal fosse from W through N to NE and bisected by a townland boundary, no evidence of earthwork on S side of boundary. Clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
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.