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Designed landscape feature

Kilballyowen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape feature, Kilballyowen, 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
Kilballyowen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47816, -8.51371
SMR number
LI032-223----

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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 reclaimed pasture, on the demesne lands of Kilballyowen House 420m to ENE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 242: AP 5/2055) as a well-defined linear-shaped cropmark which appears to extend from the pleasure grounds of Kilballyowen House, at SW, towards the W boundary of the demesne. These grounds to W of the house are depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a maze of pathways. Monument is visible a well-defined linear-shaped cropmark (min. L 220m; Wth 22m) which appears to be extending from a wet patch of ground on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 29/03/2012, 16/03/2016 and 20/09/2020. The location of this anomaly, its large width and its well-defined nature, may suggest that it is more likely to be a designed landscape feature associated with Kilballyowen House.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 29/03/2012, 16/03/2016 and 20/09/2020 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 242

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 16 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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