Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.51552, -8.59824
- SMR number
- LI031-194----
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 75m N of the townland boundary with Meanus and 840m E of the Camoge River. Enclosure (LI031-143----) located 145m to W. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. The site is visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 as the W quarter of a circular enclosure incorporated into a modern field boundary. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 67: AP 4/3598) as an enclosure. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016 and 28/06/2018 (ext. diam. c. 50m N-S; 52m E-W) abutting a field boundary on its W side.
See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 67 and Google Earth Orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 16 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 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.