Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.43467, -8.44023
- SMR number
- LI040-229001-
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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
Identified on aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 40, Bruff 114.01: AP 5/2123). Described by Doody (2008, 137) as a 'subrectangular ditched enclosure, c. 41m E-W, N limit not visible'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
References
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
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- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.