Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Killorath, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killorath
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51593, -8.60102
- SMR number
- LI031-143----
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
In reclaimed pasture 100m N of townland boundary with Manus. Enclosure (LI031-194----) located 145m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 39.02; AP 4/3598) as a circular-shaped cropmark. Outline of monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 16m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 as a circular-shaped area with land drains running E-W to immediate N and S.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 307/1 taken 13/09/2002
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.