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Enclosure

Baunteen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Baunteen, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Baunteen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.38074, -8.24055
SMR number
LI050-018001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 pasture, with good views in all directions. An enclosure (LI050-018002-) lies to the immediate E and a cairn (LI050-019----) lies 35m to the SE. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank from W-N-NE, reduced to a scarp elsewhere, intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Westropp (1919, 21) described it as one of ‘The conjoined rings of Baunteen, with a cairn near them, lying below the great “Harps” formed by coombs and parallel watercourses on the flanks of the Galtees.’ Recorded by the ASI in 1999, as enclosure A of two enclosures, consisting of a raised circular platform (diam. 18m) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.6m; H 1.6m) with possible fosse (D 2.4m; Wth at top 5.4m; Wth at base 2.4m) and drain or stream running NW-SE between enclosures A and B([LI050-018002-). Interior level and lightly overgrown. Scrub-covered monument visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 6 November 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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