Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garbally (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.