Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garryncahera, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryncahera
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48713, -8.39566
- SMR number
- LI033-087----
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 improved pasture 180m NW of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballyvistea. Enclosure (LI033-063----) lies 20m to SW and enclosure (LI033-138---) 90m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 114; AP 5/2022) as an enclosure. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and McCloud black and white aerial
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.