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
- 52.51003, -8.64882
- SMR number
- LI031-131002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On poorly drained land 25m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Dunkip. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular cropmark from examination of aerial photograph (BGE 1:5000 No. 37) of the region taken 03/11/1984 associated with Bord Gáis Éireann pipeline. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 16m) enclosed by a bank on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020. Visible on Google Earth orthoimages as a circular-shaped area intersected at N by an old meandering water channel running roughly E-W.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 16 March 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.