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Enclosure

Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathmore North, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rathmore North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52487, -8.63055
SMR number
LI031-027----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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, 420m E of a townland boundary with Lacka. Enclosure (LI031-026----) and ring-barrow (LI031-028----) lie 35m to SW and 90m 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 on map of Limerick Pipeline – Curraleigh West (Ref. Map 6, Site 6/31). Monument is not visible on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photo shown as the central monument in a line of three monuments.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 2 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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