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Enclosure

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, 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
52.50886, -8.45846
SMR number
LI032-257----

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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

At the S edge of boggy heath, liable to floods, abutting a townland boundary with Ballinscoola (Cahercorney) to WNW. A barrow (LI032-258----) lies 95m to SSE. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a subrectangular-shaped area (63m WNW-ESE; 62m NNE-SSW) divided into three fields, with a rectangular-shaped field (53m WNW-ESE; 43m NNE-SSW) occupying most of the SSW half and a farmstead in the SE corner. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 184.01 & 02: AP 4/3608) as a large rectangular-shaped cropmark with a semicircular-shaped cropmark occupying the SSW half. Possible enclosure is visible as a rectangular-shaped tree-lined area (80m NNE-SSW; 76m WNW-ESE) divided into three main fields, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. This may suggest that this is a small, post-1700 field system associated with an abandoned farmstead, in the SE corner. The semicircular-shaped cropmark identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey is not visible on any modern orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 184.01 & 02

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 21 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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