Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballytrasna, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballytrasna
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56393, -8.37489
- SMR number
- LI024-143001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a gentle WNW-facing slope, in the foothills of Knockseefin, on reclaimed pasture, 70m NW of the townland boundary with Gortnanuv. A spring rises 10m to NE. Enclosures (LI024-143003-/004/002-) lie 25m to W, 70m to SW and 145m to W, respectively. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 66: AP 4/3681) as an oval-shaped earthwork in the N corner of a field. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 31m NW-SE; 25m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 66.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.