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Field system

Kilballyowen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Field system, 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
52.47966, -8.49409
SMR number
LI032-230001-

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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 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

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

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