Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyveloge, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveloge
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61124, -8.71042
- SMR number
- LI012-053----
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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 elevated pasture on slight E facing slope, 200m N of enclosure (LI012-054----) and 300m E of the townland boundary with Faha Demesne. Curving field boundary visible from S through W to NW may incorprate the original enclosing bank, elsewhere the monument has been levelled. Depicted on both the 1840 OS 6-inch map and 1897 OS 25-inch map as a circular shaped area (approx. dims. 37m N-S) enclosed by a bank (approx. Wth 7.5m), incorporated into a field boundary from S-W to NW and a limekiln was built into SW quadrant. Visible as an overgrown upstanding enclosure on OSi aerial photograph taken 1995, no trace of monument visible on subsequent aerial images.
See attached OSi aerial photograph taken 1995 and Google Earth image taken 19/11/2019
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.