Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - vernacular house
Glenacurrane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenacurrane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.30940, -8.26464
- SMR number
- LI058-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Building outlined at this location on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map (Gowen 1988, 179). In pasture on slight SE facing slope. Remains consist of a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 9.5m N-S x 16.6m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank which represents the remains of a collapsed building aligned E-W that is depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. A low earthen bank (L 18m) of similar form runs N from gap in E side of earthwork represents the remains of a boundary associated with this building that is depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map.
See attached sketch plan and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 October 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.