Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial mound
Ballylin (shanid By., Ardagh Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylin (shanid By., Ardagh Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50291, -9.08863
- SMR number
- LI028-173----
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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 rough ground dominated by gorse and bracken on the E slope of Ballylin Hill with views to the NE, E and SE. The external rampart of a hillfort (LI028-085----) lies 200m tp W. The site is not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and is not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. The site is not visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Not visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Jerry McMahon of Ardagh (member of the Newcastle Historical Society) in 1986 when the mound was described having been discovered after a gorse fire on the hillside (pers. comm.). Subsequently inspected by the ASI in 1986 and described as ‘burial mound or barrow’. The location of the site is visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 20/10/2010 and 08/04/2015.
See attached location map prepared by Jerry McMahon and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 24 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.