Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fort Middle, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fort Middle
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39599, -8.73912
- SMR number
- LI046-034----
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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 grassland. Faint cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a scarp visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Visible as a cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Suggestion of a large irregular shaped enclosure to W but not convincing as an archaeological feature
See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 29 May 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.