Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Baunmore, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35456, -8.53663
- SMR number
- LI056-066----
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 pasture, on top of a low hill, 200m SE of the townland boundary with Bohernacore. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an enclosure by the ASI in 2013 on examination of OSi aerial photographs. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam c. 42m) defined by a fosse on Google Earth orthoimages where it is bisected by road running E-W.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 1 December 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.