Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilteely, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilteely
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52055, -8.40287
- SMR number
- LI033-123----
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 pasture 90m N of the summit of Kilteely Hill (OD 580 ft.) and within the 'Fair Green' annotated on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Enclosure (LI033-067----) lies 65m to W, enclosure (LI033-066----) 30m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 89; AP 4/3612) as a roughly semi-circular shaped area defined by a fosse from SW-N-SE, truncated at S by a field boundary running E-W. Visible as a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. 30m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012. Visible as a semi-circular shaped cropmark defined by fosse from SW-N NE on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 89.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 17 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 352/30, 33, 34 05/01/2003, 133/5, 6 23/08/2000.
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.