Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52441, -8.63128
- SMR number
- LI031-026----
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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 low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 360m E of a townland boundary with Lacka. Enclosure (LI031-027----) and ring-barrow (LI031-028----) lie 35m and 150m to NE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument is visible on 1:5000 Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photograph (No. 2497) as a circular-shaped earthwork. Monument is visible as a faint, circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 43m) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and BGE aerial photo marked 181
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.