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Enclosure

Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballynagallagh, 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
Ballynagallagh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50470, -8.52440
SMR number
LI032-186----

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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

In improved wet, low lying pasture, on the SW edge of boggy moorland, 50m SW of a boundary with Loughgur townland and 800m S of Lough Gur. Enclosures (LI032-188/299----) lie 75m to SSW and 175m to SW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps, although the bog to NE is annotated ‘Red Bog’. Monument identified as a roughly oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 212: AP 5/2011). Monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 12 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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