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
- 52.38982, -8.40442
- SMR number
- LI049-094----
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 pasture, 205m W of townland boundary with Cloghast and 160m E of Glenlary Stream, an enclosure (LI049-092----) lies 200m to the SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped platform (dims. c. 32m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW ) defined by a scarp, with fosse from N-E-S-SW, intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Tree-covered monument visible 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: 6 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.