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Enclosure

Dunkip, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Dunkip, 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
Dunkip
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51393, -8.63538
SMR number
LI031-129----

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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 improved pasture immediately S of townland boundary with Rathmore. Ringfort (LI031-025002-) lies 350m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:10,000 No. 37) taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bord Gáis Eireann Curraghleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage and as a partial cropmark (diam. c. 26m) transected at NW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW on Google Earth orthophoto dated 28/06/2018.

See attached photocopy of gas pipeline aerial taken 1984 and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 1 April 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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