Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lacka (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lacka (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52483, -8.63749
- SMR number
- LI031-022----
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
On a steep E-facing slope of ridge, in pasture which lies 25m W of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Rathmore North. An enclosure (LI031-023----) lies 35m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (Ref. BGE 1/5000, 2457). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as no surface remains visible. Field divided into paddocks which are separated by timber fencing. Monument is not visible 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 BGE orthoimage marked 183.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.