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Enclosure

Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Rathmore South, 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 South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51240, -8.64502
SMR number
LI031-128----

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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 wet pasture 150m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Dunkip. Enclosure (LI031-130----) lies 200m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified as a circulars-shaped earthwork from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 37) of the region taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020 as a roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 48m NW-SE x 42m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with traces of wide outer fosse from S to NNW, truncated at E by field boundary running N-S. External fosse appears to be waterlogged during winter months.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 15 March 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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