Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyloundash, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyloundash
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.51739, -8.43930
- SMR number
- LI032-103----
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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
Earthwork described in 1943 as following; 'This is a circular platform structure surrounded by a fosse and outer bank. The platform is 3' [0.9m] higher than field level, and monument has an overall diameter of 165' [50m]. It is situated in marshy lowland and a drain has been cut across it in an east-west direction' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 171). Faint outline of earthwork bisected by a post-1700 field drainage ditch visible today on Digital Globe aerial photograph.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 February 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.