Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Patrickswell, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Patrickswell
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50175, -8.50238
- SMR number
- LI032-225----
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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 improved pasture, to the immediate N of a drainage ditch and 75m W of a townland boundary with Kilcullane. An archaeological complex consisting of a church, graveyard, penitential station and a holy well (LI032-063001-/02-/03-/04-) are located 240m to SW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 213: AP 5/2012) as a pennanular-shaped cropmark which is open from E-SE-SSE. Monument is visible as a suboval-shaped cropmark (55m N-S; 44m E-W) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 07/05/2006 and 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 07/05/2006 and 20/09/2020 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 213
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.