Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldtown (bennett), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (bennett)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47653, -8.40186
- SMR number
- LI033-140----
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 220m W of a watercourse and immediately S of a local roadway. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 134; AP 5/2028) as an enclosure. Monument visible as an oval-shaped area defined by a fosse on aerial photograph (ASIAP (369) 1) taken 10/05/2003. Faint traces of a cropmark visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 134 and ASIAP aerial photograph (369)1.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 20 April 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.