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Moated site

Ballinscoola (Smallcounty By., Cahercorney ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Ballinscoola, 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
Ballinscoola (Smallcounty By., Cahercorney ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50763, -8.47740
SMR number
LI032-235----

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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 pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 182m to the E which forms the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 181: AP 4/3607) as a large rectilinear-shaped cropmark in a long, narrow field. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (37m ENE-WSW; 35m NNW-SSE) defined by traces of a possible fosse, best seen to N and S, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 181

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 17 November 2020

See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken on 05/01/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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