Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynaclogh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclogh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54748, -8.33507
- SMR number
- LI024-076----
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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
Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, See Bruff AP 4/3672). In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. Sub-rectangular area (32m NNE-SSW; 18m WNW-ESE) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 1.5m; H 0.17m) best defined on down-slope (Wth 4.7m; H 0.8m) W-NW; scarps melds into earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.15m; ext. H 0.4m) SE-WSW with an opening (overall Wth 7.5m; basal Wth 4m) at WSW. External fosse (Wth 4.05m; D 0.3m) NNW-SW. Break of slope where linear scarp (Wth 1.75m; H 0.25m) crosses interior (long-axis WNW-ESE) creating lower level in SW-sector. Dry water channel enters fosse at S and large dry stream bed lies immediate W of monument. Ring-barrow (LI024-184----) c. 150m to WNW. According to Doody (2008, 133) the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 7 November 2013
References
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.