Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Adamstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adamstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.43181, -8.48313
- SMR number
- LI040-075----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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
In pasture immediately W of the townland boundary with Stephenstown. Depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped field enclosing a building. Identified as a rectangular enclosure (site No. 040110) during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2558) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as an overgrown rectangular-shaped area on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2020. This is not an antiquity but the remains of a small field or haggard associated with the building depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 21 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.