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Enclosure

Bottomstown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Bottomstown, 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
Bottomstown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.44976, -8.46420
SMR number
LI040-021----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Two enclosures (LI040-020----) situated 20m apart described by O'Kelly (1944, 20) as following; 'These two monuments [LI040-020---] are situated in a low-land marshy area. They are built on a kind of platform which is probably natural, but may in part be artificial. The monuments are on the western edge of the platform and the eastern part of it is cut off from them by an ancient fence. The N. monument is a circular platform 3' [0.9m] high, around which there is a fosse. The overall diameter is 120' [36m] . The second monument is due south from the latter by a distance of 46' [14m]. It is identical with the first except that the diameter is smaller, being only 90' [27m] overall. The entrances are not recognisable'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 06 August 2019

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 347/12 on 05/01/2003.

References

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

O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.

Nearby in the register

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

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