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Enclosure - large enclosure

Clogher East, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure - large enclosure, Clogher East, 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
Clogher East
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured, Crow Field
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured, Crow Field (1924)
Coordinates
52.42683, -8.62385
SMR number
LI039-067----

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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)
  • 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 improved pasture 45m E of possible ringfort (LI039-066----). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped enclosure. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 83m NE-SW; 65m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from NW-N-E reduced to a scarp elsewhere with external fosse. Truncated at W and SW by field boundaries and intersected from W-NW by field boundary running NE-SW. Westropp (1916-17, 21) refers to ‘two conjoined and two very close’ forts in Clogher-East. Surveyed by Henry A. Wheeler in 1970 prior to land reclamation works and described as consisting of a low platform enclosed by a low bank (ext. H 5' [1.5m]) and wet fosse (D 2'/0.6m; Wth 15' [5m]). Monument is visible as a low much degraded oval-shaped earthwork on aerial photograph (ASIAP (320) 3) taken 05/10/2002. Outline of large roughly circular shaped enclosure intersected at W by modern field boundary visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016

See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photographs.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 4 May 2021

References

Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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