Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Glenlary, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenlary
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.39045, -8.41583
- SMR number
- LI048-044----
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 pasture, immediately E Glounderrig sream that forms townland boundary with Ballinvreena. A cliff-edge fort (LI048-043----) lies 14m to the W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet as a raised circular shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 23m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a scarp from NW-N-E-S-SW and at W by a scarp of the ravine. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as one of ‘three forts, one near the W boundary’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 190). Monument visible as raised D-shaped area defined by a scarp with trees at S on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 17 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.