Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (smallcounty By., Hospital Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50016, -8.45698
- SMR number
- LI032-265----
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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 pasture, 50m W of a public road, 100m W of the Ballynamona River and 385m NE of a townland boundary with Gortacloona. Ballynamona castle (LI032-095001-) and church (LI032-095002-) lie 230m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps, although area is shown as rock outcrop on the revised 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 229: AP 5/2017) as a poorly defined, roughly oval-shaped cropmark to the immediate E of a field boundary running roughly N-S. Possible monument is visible as an oval-shaped mound (38m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) with rock outcrop clearly visible protruding from the surface, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 229
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.