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Cultivation ridges

Ballynagally, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cultivation ridges, Ballynagally, 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
Ballynagally
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.53692, -8.39060
SMR number
LI024-192002-

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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 low-lying, wet pasture 130m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Scart. Possible Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 40.4; AP 4/3666) as a possible field system. Faint linear cropmarks running N-S visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cultivation ridges running E-W visible on Google Earth orthoimage 18/11/2018 are not contained within the linear N-S cropmarks. The linear cropmarks running N-S possibly represents the remains of drainage ditches rather than the remains of a pre-1700 field system. The dating of the cultivation ridges remains uncertain.

See attached photocopy of Bruff aerial image labelled Bruff 4.04 and Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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