Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Rathlumber, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathlumber
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30931, -7.13813
- SMR number
- OF011-029----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 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
Aerial photo (N 453/454) shows cropmark almost squared shaped. No surface traces.
Not visible at ground level. Aerial photographs (GSI, N 453/4) shows cropmark of square enclosure to SE of nearby ringfort (OF011-028----).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.