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Watercourse

Ballinfreera, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Watercourse, Ballinfreera, 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
Ballinfreera
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.47328, -8.69405
SMR number
LI031-082----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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 wet pasture 96m W of the River Maigue which forms townland boundary with Inchinclare and 30m NE of townland boundary with Ballyphillips, a burial ground (LI031-124----) lies 250m to NE. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a hollow-way (dims. L 56m) running NW-SE, flanked on either side by an earthen bank intersected at NW and SE by post-1700 field boundaries. A field boundary (L c. 250m) running NW-SE indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and not depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map which suggests that it was levelled between these dates. Traces of this field boundary are visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. Earthwork is visible as a meandering linear cropmark on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. The aerial imagery suggests that the meandering remains of this earthwork may be the remains of a watercourse rather than that a sunken road. Earthwork is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 24 March 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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