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Enclosure

Grange (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Grange, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Grange (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.51791, -8.53748
SMR number
LI032-011002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On rocky pasture on the summit Ardaghlooda, a rocky ridge overlooking Lough Gur, 90m W of the lake. The site is one of three enclosures on the hill (LI032-011001-/002/004-) within a dense concentration of archaeological monuments including standings stones (LI032-009/010002-). Enclosure (LI032-011001-) located 95m to SSW, enclosure (LI032-011004-) located 43m to SW. The great stone circle at Grange (LI032-004001-) located 430m to SW. The site pre-dates a later historic field system (LI032-011003-) which overlies the enclosures (LI032-011001/002/004-). The historic road (LI032-010001-) known as 'Cladh na Leac' skirts around the W side of the hill 165m W of the enclosure.
The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch or on the 1897 ed. 25-inch maps. It is depicted on the Cassini 6-inch OSi map by a curving arc of hachures defining the SW side of the enclosure (ext. diam. c. 25m). It is faintly visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. The site is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006; 25/03/2017; 20/03/2018 and 20/09/20200 and survives as a circular enclosure (int. diam. 29m N-S; 29m E-W) surrounded by a low bank (Wth c. 7m). The enclosure is bisected by a later E-W field boundary that forms part of relic field system (LI032-011003-).

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Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 3 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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