Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Garroose, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garroose
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.41056, -8.66405
- SMR number
- LI047-003----
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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 flat marshy pasture. Oval area (25m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by scarped edge (H 1.1m; ), with external waterlogged fosse (D 0.2m; Wth. 3.4m) NW->ENE. Domestic rubbish, including heaps of earth and stone, has been dumped along inner edge of scarp ESE->ENE and NW->ENE. Scarp is incorporated into field boundary system ESE->NW where a shallow field drain has been cut along its base. Flat-bottomed fosse is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth. Entrance (Wth 6m) at E. Interior, under marshy rough pasture, slopes down gently to E.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.