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Castle - unclassified

Ballytrasna, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Castle - unclassified, 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
Latest-edition OS map
Castle (Site of) (1928)
Coordinates
52.55930, -8.38052
SMR number
LI024-039----

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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 improved pasture, on a WNW-facing slope. No visible surface trace. Named on current edition OS 6-inch map as 'Castle (site of)'. Trackway depicted on same exists to immediate W. Stone wall (L c. 4m; h 1.3m) rebuilt on W-side of roadway in area of castle site. Scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.5m) c. 4m to E of roadway.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen & Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 May 2016

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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