Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Clorane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clorane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 52.50491, -8.65432
- SMR number
- LI031-054----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 170m SW of Camoge River, forming townland boundary with Rathmore South, 300m SE of enclosure (LI031-053----). Clorane House lies 160m to SW. No antiquity depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Quarry (Disused)’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, where it is shown as a rectangular-shaped area (51m NW-SE, 35m SW-NE) that has been quarried away with cliff-face depicted from S-W-N. Quarry visible as tree-lined rectangular-shaped area filled with water on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.