Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynacarriga, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacarriga
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64965, -8.81093
- SMR number
- LI004-036----
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
In gently undulating pasture and rock outcrop, overlooking the River Shannon estuary and the confluence with the River Maigue, c. 1km to NNE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as an enclosure on aerial photography taken by Michael Moore 04/03/2006. Monument is visible as a D-shaped enclosure (35m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/02/2009 and Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 05/02/2009
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 June 2020
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.