Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.50886, -8.45846
- SMR number
- LI032-257----
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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
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
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.