Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballybrood, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrood
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55726, -8.43121
- SMR number
- LI023-189----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On low-lying improved, wet pasture, in forestry cut by land drains and watercourses. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 191: AP 4/3685). Monument is visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 48m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 2 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.