Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Inchacoomb, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchacoomb
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1905)
- Coordinates
- 52.36206, -8.27616
- SMR number
- LI049-207----
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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 140m SW of a stream that marks the townland boundary with Boolanlisheen. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp from S-N-SE with external fosse from NE-SE. Truncated at SE by a field boundary running NE-SW. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.