Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Anhid East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anhid East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50358, -8.71561
- SMR number
- LI030-138----
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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 pasture, abutting a townland boundary with Anhid west, to N and 455m SW of the River Maigue. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified as two concentric circular-shaped cropmarks visible on aerial photography by Celie O’Rahilly, Limerick County Archaeologist in advance of construction of the Croom bypass. Monument described as: ‘A circular mound defined by a shallow ditch abutting the northern boundary [of a field]. Approximate north-south diameter is 36m. This site would not appear to be affected by the route line’. Monument is visible as a bivallate circular-shaped cropmark with a small annexe to S, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017 and 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 23 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.