Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Glenbrohane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenbrohane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38664, -8.39590
- SMR number
- LI049-275----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In upland pasture 320m SE of the summit of a hill which rises to 800 ft. (243m). Doonglara Hillfort (LI049-098----) lies 115m to NW and enclosure (LI049-099----) lies 80m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam c. 22m) enclosed by a bank with traces of an external fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 October 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.