Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Garroose, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garroose
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40496, -8.66583
- SMR number
- LI047-094----
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 wet pasture 320m E of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Garrane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a large oval-shaped area (dims. c. 60m N-S; 80m E-W) defined by a scarp with external waterfilled ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Uncertain antiquity.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 19 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.