Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Camas South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camas South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47576, -8.57523
- SMR number
- LI031-185----
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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 wet flat pasture 25m W of a tributary of the Morningstar River and 110m W of the townland boundary with Garbally. Enclosure (LI039-119----) located 330m to SSE. The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps. It is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 but not on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 54: AP 5/2060) as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 20m). The site is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/09/2018 and 14/09/2019).
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 54 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 7 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.