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Enclosure

Ballinlough, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballinlough, 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
Ballinlough
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.50023, -8.41885
SMR number
LI032-268----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

On a S-facing slope of Knockanastague, in improved pasture, 55m NW of a public road and 200m NE of a townland boundary with Ballincurra. Burial mound (LI032-107----) lies 270m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 240: AP 5/2020) as a substantial curvilinear-shaped earthwork to the immediate E of a field boundary running roughly NW-SE.
Possible monument is visible as a substantial suboval-shaped area (156m NE-SW; 137m NW-SE) enclosed by a possible arc of bank (C 157m) from W-NW and which may be incorporated into a field boundary from SW-W. A curvilinear-shaped earthwork visible from ENE-E-ESE may represent a possible arc of bank (C 90m), as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020. Possible monument is truncated by a public road across the SE sector and no potential cropmark is visible on the opposite side of the road.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 240

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 22 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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