Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynash (bishop), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynash (bishop)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not shown.
- Coordinates
- 52.59517, -9.13398
- SMR number
- LI009-019----
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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
On a gentle W-facing slope, in rough pasture. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified as a pennanular-shaped enclosure on Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph. Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 31m E-W x 29m N-S) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/09/2009 and 08/04/2015.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 3 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.