Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Kilgarriff, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgarriff
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.35166, -8.36940
- SMR number
- LI057-032----
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 135m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ahnaguarra. Enclosure (LI057-030----) lies 200m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area defined by a scarp. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 24m) defined by a scarp that has been incorporated into a field boundary. Monument is visible as a circular-shaped area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 November 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.