Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Spittle (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38039, -8.32900
- SMR number
- LI049-250----
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 improved pasture 125m W of a local road. Enclosure (LI049-251----) lies 120m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified as a large oval-shaped enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, 2606) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Faint trace of earthwork visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.