Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lackendarragh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackendarragh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.32435, -8.27756
- SMR number
- LI057-044----
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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 pasture on S slope of Knockmagh and 540m W of the townland boundary with Anglesborough. Enclosure (LI057-045----) lies 200m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a large circular shaped earthwork with possible lime-kiln in ESE quadrant. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 58m) enclosed by a bank, intersected from NW-E-S by curving field boundary. Levelled monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark 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: 21 November
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.