Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Uregare, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Uregare
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.45585, -8.55076
- SMR number
- LI040-040----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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 reclaimed pasture, immediately NW of enclosure (LI040-039----). Depicted as a small rectangular field on OSi historic maps. Possible site (No. 040119) identified as a rectangular enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 2546) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh Wes-Limerick gas pipeline (Strip Map 5, Site 5/20). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cropmark represents the remains of a post-1700 field indicated on OSi 6-inch map.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann (BGE 2546) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.