Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Inchacoomb, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchacoomb
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.35359, -8.27116
- SMR number
- LI057-019002-
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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, 150m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Baurnagurrahy. Enclosure (LI057-019001-) lies to immediate N. 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. 30m) defined by a scarp from SW-N-SE. Truncated at S by field boundary running NW-SE and enclosed by a curving field boundary from SW-N-SE. Recorded by Westropp as a conjoined fort (1919-17, 21). Scrub-covered area visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 18 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 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.