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
- 52.51246, -8.64816
- SMR number
- LI031-131001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 160m NW of enclosure (LI031-128----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark 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 as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.