Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Kilballyowen, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilballyowen
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.47966, -8.49409
- SMR number
- LI032-230001-
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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
On a gentle NW-facing slope, in improved pasture, on former deer park of Kilballyowen House located 140m W of a townland boundary with Knockainy West. Cashel (LI032-127----) lies 20m to E, enclosure (LI032-023002-) 55m to NE, earthwork (LI032-130----) 95m to ESE and enclosure (LI032-230004-) 130m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 251: AP 5/2053) as a subrectangular-shaped area containing a series of linear-shaped cropmarks intersecting at various angles and which form a distinct triangular-shaped cropmark in the centre of the field system. Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped area (9.4 acres/3.8ha) containing a series of linear-shaped cropmarks intersecting at various angles and which form a distinct triangular-shaped cropmark in the centre of the field system as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 251
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cursusunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.