Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Rathcannon, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathcannon
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46734, -8.60276
- SMR number
- LI039-150----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 130m NE of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballincurra. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 31; AP 5/2063) as a possible enclosure. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Bruff aerial photographs (31) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 11 May 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.