Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballingoola, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingoola
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53768, -8.52508
- SMR number
- LI023-076----
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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
No surface remains visible of any enclosure or 'fort' in area marked on OS 6-inch map. Listed by O'Kelly as a 'fort' and described as following; 'The first edition of the O.S. map shows a fort at this location, but no trace of it now remains. A sand pit was opened near the site and quarrying operations eventually caused the total destruction of the structure. It is not marked on the last (1927) edition of the map' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 180).
No antiquity or fort is depicted in this area on the first ed. OS 6-inch map, a small quarry or sand pit is depicted in the SE quadrant of the field and this feature may be the 'fort' that O'Kelly mentions above.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 27 September 2018
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.