Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Crean (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crean (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.49685, -8.61973
- SMR number
- LI031-097----
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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
Large enclosure described by O'Kelly (1942-3, 233) as following; 'This is a large trapezium shaped enclosure consisting of an outer bank, inside which is a fosse. Inside this is a raised open space on the edge of which is another bank. The interior is divided into three areas, two small spaces and one large, by banks which are now only barely perceptible. The entrance is on the middle of the west side. It consists of a gap 15' [4.5m] wide in the inner bank and a similar one in the outer. A sloping way leads from the inside across the fosse. The main banks are of earth and gravel but some stone has been used in the internal dividing walls. The overall maximum dimensions are : north-south 420' [128m] and east-west 300' [91m]'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 01 August 2019
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/18 taken 13/09/2002, 329/3 taken 05/10/2002.
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
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.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.