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Enclosure

Ballycullane Lower, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballycullane Lower, 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
Ballycullane Lower
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not shown
Coordinates
52.56186, -9.33631
SMR number
LI017-053----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In improved pasture 80m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Kilmurrily and county boundary with Kerry. Ringfort (LI017-004---) lies 160m to SE and ringfort (KE003-030---) 200m to W. Not depicted on historic OSi maps it was identified from an aerial photograph as a circular cropmark indicating a levelled circular-shaped enclosure. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Possible cropmark (diam. c. 40m) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken between 2011-13. Faint oval-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 48m N-S x 75m E-W) visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 15/04/2020.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 6 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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