Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Coolbaun (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbaun (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially indicated (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.58517, -8.25989
- SMR number
- LI025-003----
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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 level pasture with good views in all directions, 140m NW of the Cahernahallia River which also forms a townland boundary with Carrig Beg. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (36m NE-SW; 32m NW-SE) and on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a semi-circular bank (diam. 34m E-W). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.