Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duntryleague
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41157, -8.35591
- SMR number
- LI049-049002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In rough pasture, in S quadrant of a field system (LI049-049001-), a fulacht fia (LI049-273----) lies 40m to the SW. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Possible levelled ringfort identified as a circular cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 Site 148; Strip Map 3 Site 3/37) taken 03/11/1984. Faint trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached BGE location map and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.