Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Garryncoonagh North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryncoonagh North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.35893, -8.64077
- SMR number
- LI047-066----
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 pasture 60m S of a local road that marks the townland boundary with Commons and 60m E of a railway track. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 25m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) enclosed by a fosse from N-W-NE and intersected at S by a field boundary running NE-SW. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped area enclosed by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at S by field boundary running NE-SW.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.