Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballintaw, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintaw
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.49339, -8.64255
- SMR number
- LI031-057----
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 reclaimed pasture, enclosure (LI031-056----) lies 226m to SW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform (dims. c. 22m N-S x 27m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse from N-E-S-SE only. Bisected by a drainage ditch running NW-SE across W quadrant. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/34 & 35 taken 13/09/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.