Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Tobernea West, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.