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Enclosure

Ballytrasna, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballytrasna, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballytrasna
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Clashatloe, Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54837, -8.38534
SMR number
LI024-037----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 dense woodland, 65m NE of a townland boundary with Ballynagally. Annotated ‘Clashatloe’ on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a roughly -D-shaped earthwork. Earthwork not shown on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map where a long scarp or cliff-face (70m NW-SE; 25m ENE-WSW) is depicted. Monument visited by the ASI in 2008 when access was not gained due to dense vegetation. A steep counterscarp (Wth 2.4m; H 2.25m) was noted to define the W-side and the southern portion of the interior was submerged in water. This seems to be a depression rather than an extant feature so it is possible that this is a former quarry. A number of quarry pits are depicted close to E, SE and NW on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Possible monument is visible as a tree and scrub-covered area on OSi orthimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 2008 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 28 September 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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