Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagallagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church Island
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51159, -8.53318
- SMR number
- LI032-015----
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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
Crannóg described by O'Kelly (1944, 19) as following; 'This crannog is called Church Island on the earliest edition of the O.S. map but it is not shown on the recent revisions. . It is situated on the present shore-line on the S. side of Lough Gur and appears merely as a small solid area surrounded on the landward side by a soft marsh. It seems to have been connected with the mainland by a causeway'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 August 2019
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1944 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 4, 16-53.
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.