Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Clogher West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43758, -8.64335
- SMR number
- LI039-062----
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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 55m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Cloonbrien. Enclosure (LI039-061----) lies 225m to NW. No antiquity marked at this location on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area(dims. 19m NW-SE; 15m E-W) enclosed by a curving field wall from N-E-SE and at W by a field boundary running NW-SE. The topographical files of the National Museum of Ireland recorded ‘the finding of an 18th century millstone and in this reference is made to the levelling of a ringfort in 1968 which appears on the 1924 map as an oval enclosure’ (SMR File). The monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Could be the remains of a small post-1700 field enclosure rather than the remains of an archaeological monument.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.