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Enclosure

Cross (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cross, 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
Cross (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56176, -8.30766
SMR number
LI024-170----

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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, immediately S Reask River which marks townland boundary with Brackyle and 218m NE of townland boundary with Knockballyfookeen. A cluster of five ring-barrows (LI024-171001/005-) lie 70m to SW, a cluster of barrows and earthwork (LI024-058001/004-; LI024-293/294----) lie 150m to SE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 107; AP4/3676) as a large sub-circular shaped area enclosed by a fosse, intersected by Reask River at N. Monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 or on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013. Cropmark unconvincing evidence for the presence of an archaeological monument at this location.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff Survey aerial image labelled Bruff 107

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 24 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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