Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Loughgur, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughgur
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51819, -8.52440
- SMR number
- LI032-022026-
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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
In rocky pasture under a low cliff on the E side of narrow N-S steep sided valley that bisects Knockadoon Peninsula separating Back Hill to the W and Knockmore to the E. The enclosure site is located E of a complex Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement that was discovered during a campaign of archaeological excavation over 18 seasons led by Professor Seán P. Ó Ríordáin at Lough Gur (Cleary 2018). These include archaeological excavations by Ó Ríordáin at Circle K (LI032-022028-) 290m to SW and at Circle J (LI032-022020-) 250m to SSW. Archaeological excavations were conducted by Cleary at a C-shaped enclosure (LI032-022008-) 275m Sto W. The enclosure (LI032-022026-) is located within a field system (LI032-022001-).
The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps nor is it clearly visible on both the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-2013. Grogan (1989) recorded that ‘the site consists of a half circle formed by a double kerbed wall set against the base of the cliff. It is c. 10m in diameter‘. The site is illustrated by Cleary (2003, 99) and drawn and recorded as a C-shaped stone and earthen bank which abuts the E cliff face of a narrow valley that bisects Knockadoon Peninsula. The site of the enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 20/09/2020. The precise location of the monument should be verified by fieldwork.
See attached site location map by Cleary 2003 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
Cleary, R. et al. 2003 Enclosed Late Bronze Age Habitation Site and Boundary Wall at Lough Gur, Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 103C, 97-189.
Cleary, R. 2018 The archaeology of Lough Gur. Dublin. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.