Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Crean (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crean (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49080, -8.62681
- SMR number
- LI031-190----
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 flat pasture 540m E of the townland boundary with Ballintaw. Crean church (LI031-091001) and graveyard (LI031-091002-) are located 390m to WSW, ringfort (LI031-189----) located 200m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as a D-shaped enclosure (ext. dims. c. 67m N-S; 53m E-W) surrounded by a fosse and external bank on the W side. The earthworks that define the site on the other sides consist of a fosse. Small relic field boundaries link the site into the surrounding existing field boundaries on the N and S. Identified by ASI aerial photographic survey 2002 (ASIAP (307) 27 and 28) as an enclosure. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 16/03/2016; 28/06/2018 and 24/09/2018.
See attached ASI survey image showing the enclosure and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 8 October 2020
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.