What is recorded here

Hachured is a fifty-metre tree-covered enclosure in County Limerick, mapped as a large fort in 1840 and still visible through scrub woodland today. It sits beside the River Maigue, not far from Croom medieval parish church, suggesting people lived, worked or hid there long before modern boundaries were drawn. The land has changed from pasture to woodland and back again, but the circle remains, holding whatever life once moved inside it.

In pasture, 240m SW of the River Maigue and the townland boundary with Skagh. Located 700m NNW of Croom medieval parish church (LI030-025006-). The enclosure is depicted as a large fort surrounded by a bank on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is later depicted as an enclosure (ext. dims. c. 50m N-S; 50m E-W) surrounded by a fosse on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The monument is visible a tree-covered enclosure on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. The enclosure is visible as an enclosure covered in scrub woodland on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009; 16/03/2016 and 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 29 September 2020

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