Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43738, -8.45532
- SMR number
- LI040-166004-
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 reclaimed wet pasture, a group of possible barrows (LI040-166001-/003-) lie 220m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 113.01; AP 5/2122) as an oval shaped earthwork. Possible monument visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 30m N-S; 26m E-W) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Cropmark with possible adjoining cropmark to E visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 113.01 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.