Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinveala, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinveala
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56784, -8.68554
- SMR number
- LI022-158----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In tillage on a slight SSE-facing slope, 200m to W of townland boundary with Shanaclogh. Not depicted on the 1840 OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 OSi 25-inch map. Identified from an examination of 1:10,000 Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE No. 38, Site No.022204). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described no surface remains visible. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. int. diam. 39m; ext. diam. 47m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 14 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.