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
- 52.40087, -8.34183
- SMR number
- LI049-063006-
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, within a field system (LI049-063001-), two enclosures (LI049-063007-/008-) lie 140m and 40m to the SE respectively. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Earthwork identified as a sub-circular shaped cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Strip Map 3 Site 3/27) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a sub-circular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 20m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a wet fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Visible to the immediate S is a relic field boundary running NW-SE depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A relic watercourse running NW-SE is visible 8m to the NE of the monument.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.