Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyluddy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyluddy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56667, -8.32036
- SMR number
- LI024-271----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In improved, low-lying pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 130m W of a townland boundary with Brackyle. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Enclosures (LI024-136/135----) lie 130m to SE and 170m to SW, respectively. Monument identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 153: AP 4/3677). Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (23.5m E-W; 21m N-S) on OSi orthophoto 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophoto 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 153.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 11 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.