Enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, to the immediate W of a townland boundary with Honeypound. Enclosure (LI030-024----) lies 110m to S. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (46m N-S; 39m E-W), not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, where the E sector is cut by a railway track running N-S. Monument is annotated ‘The Hovel’ on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map and is depicted similar to the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Identified by Frank Coyne in 2012 during preparation of an assessment in the vicinity (Coyne 2012, 24). Levelled monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped cropmark on OSi aerial orthimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 24 October 2020

References

Coyne, F. 2012 Archaeological Test Trenching at Skagh, Croom, Co. Limerick (Licence No 12E0304), unpublished report submitted to National Monuments Service, DAHG.

Coyne, F. 2012 Draft Archaeological Impact Statement for the construction of a new post-primary school at Skagh, Croom, Co. Limerick. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Dublin.