Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40911, -8.38980
- SMR number
- LI049-016----
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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 125m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown East. Enclosure (LI049-015----) lies 85m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible ovoid enclosure during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2557; Site No. 258) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by a bank on Digital Globe orthophotos taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (2577) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.