Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyvarra, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvarra
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1938)
- Coordinates
- 52.65090, -8.49758
- SMR number
- LI006-045----
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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 grassland, 460m N of the Mulkear River and approx. 300 W of the public road R506. No monument is depicted at this location on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. A semi-circular shaped rise of ground (approx. dims. NW-SE 22m x NE-SW 15m) is depicted at this location on the 1897 OS 25-inch map. On this map the raised area of ground is intersected by a post-1700 field boundary at N. A trackway is visible 23m to SE. Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13 shows no surface trace of any monument at this location. Google Earth imagery taken 28/06/2018 shows the field recently planted with no surface remains visible of any monument. Doubtful antiquity, may be a post-1700 feature. A Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018 shows faint outline of possible earthwork with relict field system to N.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 and 06/02/2018
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney and Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.