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Enclosure

Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynamona, 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
Ballynamona (Smallcounty By., Hospital ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Outlined (1927)
Coordinates
52.50432, -8.46140
SMR number
LI032-088----

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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)
  • 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

On a hillock (322ft/98m), in pasture, 105m E of a townland boundary with Ballinscoola. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (29m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE) with OSi trig. staion marking spot heigh of 322 ft. OD inside enclosure. Upstanding monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. Earthwork may be related to the OSi trig. station shown on the OSi 6-inch map.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 6 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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