Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyshonickbane, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.