Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cahirguillamore (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahirguillamore (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cathair Gail, Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.51132, -8.58037
- SMR number
- LI031-041004-
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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, on the former deer park of Cahir Guillamore demesne and 90m NE of a townland boundary with a portion of Rockbarton Demesne deer park, (which is recorded on OSi maps within Caherguillamore townland). Within NW portion of field system (LI031-041001-). Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork (42m NE-SW; 41m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Cathair Gail’ and depicted as a semicircular-shaped enclosure on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. According to Dowd (1896, 80), this enclosure forms part of an extensive settlement that have been assumed to be the foundations of extensive buildings, and modern work refers to them as being “the remains of an ancient city of great extent”. Upstanding monument identified as a suboval-shaped enclosure on aerial image and annotated on key to aerial image (Ó Ríordáin and Hunt 1942, 40-41; Figures 1 and 2, Fort D). Ó Ríordáin and Hunt (ibid, 41) described this monument as: 'an irregular enclosure on the ground but one could not be certain that it is a fort'. Levelled monument is not visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP 307, 5), or on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013, although a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 44m) is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/09/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, ASIAP and CUCAP aerial survey image with enclosure encircled and marked ‘X’, aerial image (Ó Ríordáin & Hunt 1942, 40) marked Figure 1 and key to aerial image marked Figure 2 (Fort D).
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 November 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Dowd, J. 1896 Round about the County of Limerick. Limerick. G. McKern & Sons.
Ó Ríordáin, S. P. & Hunt, J. 1942 Mediaeval dwellings at Caherguillamore, Co. Limerick. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 37-63.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Boulder-burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.