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Enclosure

Garbally (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Garbally, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Garbally (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47128, -8.56796
SMR number
LI039-042----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 pasture, 170m E of townland boundary with Parkroe and 185m E of townland boundary with Camas South. An earthwork (LI039-042----) lies 37m to NW, enclosure (LI039-043----) lies 84m to SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 039133) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2542) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Partial cropmark of D-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 36m N-S; 34m E-W) transected at E by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S is visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-212 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. The earthwork is intersected at NW and SW by linear cropmarks running NW-SE and NE-SW respectively. Small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) visible in centre of partial cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006.

See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2542) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 7 April 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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