Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Keale (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Keale (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.30893, -8.44935
- SMR number
- LI056-043----
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 upland pasture 100m N of the Keale River that marks the townland boundary with Kilcruaig. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 65m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by a scarp from NE-S-SW-NW and by a field boundary elsewhere. Intersected at N by field boundary running E-W. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 17 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.