Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.49339, -8.38875
- SMR number
- LI033-139----
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 wet pasture immediately N of a field boundary running NW-SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 135; AP 5/2022) as an enclosure. Visible as a sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 12.5m N-S; 21.5m E-W) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as a semi-circular shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 transected at S by a field boundary running NW-SE.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 135.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 20 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.