Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Monaster North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monaster North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51876, -8.66430
- SMR number
- LI031-010001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 gently undulating low-lying pasture, overlooking the Camoge River, which also forms a townland boundary between Monaster North and South. Annotated ‘old road’ on Westropp’s sketch plan of Monasteranenagh which shows the assembly place of the Oenach Cairbre (Westropp 1920, 373). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. According to Westropp (1920, 372, 373 & 375), ‘An ancient roadway’ leads from a fording point on the Camoge River, to a pair of conjoined ringforts (LI031-010002-), the latter which he refers to as the assembly place of the Óenach Cairbre. According to Westropp (1920, 373) the ford marks an earlier crossing point known as ‘The Ford of the Chariots of Fergus’. Monument is visible as a linear cropmark (L 120m; Wth 8.5m) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and photographs taken by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 27 October 2020
References
Westropp, T.J. 1920 The assembly-place of ´Oenach Cairbre and Síd Asail at Monasteranenagh, County Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 35C, 363-77.
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