Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cahercorney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercorney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown
- Coordinates
- 52.52847, -8.48377
- SMR number
- LI032-073018-
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
In low-lying, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 280m W of the Camoge River which also marks a townland boundary with Ballinard. Enclosures (LI032-073013-/012-) lie 23m to WSW and 50m to NW respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 30m) by the Discovery Programme aerial photographic survey. Monument is visible as a faint circular-shaped earthwork on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 04/05/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Discovery Programme aerial survey image labelled 21 and annotated RMP map labelled 21.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 November 2020
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 344/10 taken 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.