Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynagranagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagranagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51628, -8.43618
- SMR number
- LI032-252----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 195: AP 4/3610) as a semi-circular-shaped earthwork transected at E by modern field drain. Curving earthwork visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-201. Partial outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff aerial survey image.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.