Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Skehanagh (Connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skehanagh (Connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.50177, -9.03112
- SMR number
- LI028-184----
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In level partially waterlogged pasture, on E side of stream. Enclosure, visible as circular cropmark on aerial photograph (LAS), now evident as sub-rectangular area (13m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m) with external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.2m). The enclosing element is barely traceable on the S side; fosse most evident at SW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.