Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballinscoola (smallcounty By., Cahercorney Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinscoola (smallcounty By., Cahercorney Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50892, -8.48047
- SMR number
- LI032-234----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 100m to SW and which marks the townland boundary with Kilcullane. A ring-barrow (LI032-233001-) lies 16m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 180: AP 4/3607) as a rectangular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (12m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) defined by a fosse, 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 labelled 180
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 17 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.