Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Griston East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Griston East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36433, -8.36751
- SMR number
- LI049-173----
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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 wet pasture immediately S of a roadway and 30m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ahnagurra. Enclosure (LI049-174001-) lies 220m to NE. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. It is shown on Cassini OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 27m). Monument is visible as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.