Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Martinstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Martinstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40215, -8.48407
- SMR number
- LI048-094----
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 reclaimed pasture immediately S of a local access road. Enclosure (LI048-013---) lies 300m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Identified as a possible enclosure on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 19/09/2002. Cropmark of monument is visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 13/08/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.