Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
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
- 52.51709, -8.59489
- SMR number
- LI031-210----
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, the NW end of the road abuts the townland boundary with Coolfune. The road is located 20m NE of a ringfort (LI031-039----). The trackway is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, although the NW end of the road leads to a vernacular building and a farm lane depicted on the map that continues NW. A house to the SW of the trackway annotated 'Boher House' on the OSi 25-inch map appears to have been named after this trackway. The trackway is not depicted on the OSi 1897 ed. 25-inch map. The road is clearly visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by the ASI on Bruff Aerial photographs (Bruff 4/3598) as a linear road (Wth c. 16m; L c. 445m) orientated NW-SE, the road is lined on either side by a bank. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 25/03/2017 and 28/06/2018. The association of the road leading to the small farmstead at its NW end suggests an Early Post-medieval date.
See attached Bruff survey image showing road/trackway and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 20 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.