Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cromwell, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cromwell
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.50861, -8.38521
- SMR number
- LI033-054----
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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
Earthwork described in 1943 as following; 'This consists of a circular platform which has only a slight elevation over the field level. It is surrounded by a continuous fosse and the entrance is not recognisable. The height over the field is 2' [0.6m] and the overall diameter is 190' [58m]. It has been cut through during the making of a modern stone covered drain. The monument is in a low-land marsh' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 177). Cropmark of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 February 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.