Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Ballyveelish, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyveelish
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57440, -8.67375
- SMR number
- LI022-151----
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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 pasture on slight SE-facing slope, 122m N of townland boundary with Ballycahane Lower, enclosure (LI022-007----) lies 170m to NW. Identified from an examination of 1:5000 aerial photographs (BGE No. 3224; Site No. 022198) taken 03/11/1984 associated with the Bord Gáis Éireann Cork-Dublin gas pipeline. Site visited by ASI in 2000 and described as a square-shaped hollow (4m x 4m x ; D 0.2m) in the area of the site which appears to be modern. Cropmark of hollow visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 2006.
See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photo (BGE No. 3224) with site labelled 022198 and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.