Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.49549, -8.45855
- SMR number
- LI032-269----
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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, 15m E of the River Mahore which also marks a townland boundary with Gortacloona and 115m S of a confluence with the Ballynamona River. Ringforts (LI032-089/092----) lie 115m to N and 135m to S respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 228: AP 5/2016) as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork defined by a scarp to E. Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork (31m NNW-SSE; 22m ENE-WSW) enclosed by the angle of a floodplain scarp to E and S and by a curvilinear-scarp from SW-W-N-NE, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/03/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 228
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.