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
- 52.56228, -8.38098
- SMR number
- LI024-144----
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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 a gentle N-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, abutting a spring. Enclosure (LI024-038----) lies 115m to NW. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Potential site identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 64: AP 4/3681) as a D-shaped cropmark defined along the straight side to N by a field boundary. Hollow depression visible in this area on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12. Possible monument not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 64.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.