Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Athlacca North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athlacca North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46125, -8.67353
- SMR number
- LI039-009----
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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 flat pasture, 36m E of townland boundary with Glenma and 86m S of townland boundary, enclosure (LI039-008----) lies 250m to SW. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch sheet as a roughly oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 26m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.