Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Boolanlisheen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Boolanlisheen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.36425, -8.26488
- SMR number
- LI050-006----
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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 20m S of the Assaroola River that marks the townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh and immediately NE of a forestry plantation. Enclosure (LI050-007----) lies 170m to N. Depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.3m; H 1.1m) with fosse (Wth 2.2m) that is widest at the SW (Wth 8.6m) where it may indicate an entrance feature. Truncated at NW by possible drainage ditch running N-S. Intersected from N-E by a curving field boundary. Partially overgrown monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.