Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Inchacoomb, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchacoomb
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.35732, -8.27206
- SMR number
- LI057-018----
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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 to W of Galtee Mountain range and 115m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Boolanlisheen. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp with external fosse from SW-NW. Intersected at S by a field boundary running NW-SE. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 11 November 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.