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Enclosure

Ballyshonickbane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyshonickbane, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyshonickbane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62767, -8.86751
SMR number
LI011-148----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope, in gently undulating, rough pasture, c. 20m to W of a stream. Not depicted on OS mapping. Identified as a possible enclosure from aerial photograph taken by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in 2006 (ASIAP 04/03/2006). Visible as a subcircular-shaped area (15m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) of differential growth in an area of wet scrub on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/07/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 8 July 2020

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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