Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmore North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.52106, -8.62733
- SMR number
- LI031-030----
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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 pasture, 325m NE of a townland boundary with Rathmore South. Enclosure (LI031-140----) lies 285m to E. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (43m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) which is traversed across the NW edge by a field boundary running NE-SW. Referred to by O’Kelly (1944, 49) as Earthwork Type A and described as: ‘A circular earthen platform surrounded by a fosse. There is no trace of a bank. The entrance is on the E side where the fosse is interrupted and there is a ramp leading to the platform. The overall diameter is 120’ (37m)’. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP 329, 7) taken 05/10/2002, on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 308/30 taken 13/09/2002.
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.