Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathmore South, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.