Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballygiltenan Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygiltenan Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56102, -9.26768
- SMR number
- LI018-032----
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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 undulating pasture, on NE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) clipped on W side by N-S field boundary, has been levelled. This field boundary has now been removed. Enclosure is still perceptible as roughly rectangular area (24.2m N-S; 27.7m E-W) enclosed by low rise (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth 3.5m) with external fosse (Wt. 3m; D 0.2m). NW->NW and SE->SW. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.