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Enclosure

Tobernea West, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Tobernea West, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tobernea West
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.37230, -8.59531
SMR number
LI047-071----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 reclaimed pasture 65m S of the townland boundary with Thomastown and 100m W of the townland boundary with Tobernae Middle. Partially indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a field boundary curving from S-W-N. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from NW-N-E reduced to a scarp which forms a field boundary from S-W-NW. Intersected at NW by field boundary running NW-SE and at S by field boundary running NW-SE. Levelled monument is visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 18 August 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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