Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Castletown (Connello Upper By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castletown (Connello Upper By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.42165, -8.80462
- SMR number
- LI038-111----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In low-lying marshy pasture. Site depicted as roughly circular (diam c. 50m) embanked enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map is now evident as ovoid area (c. 67m N-S; c. 41m E-W) which rises gently up towards centre (max. H c. 1.5m); no trace of any enclosing element.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Stone rowunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.