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Enclosure

Ballincurra (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballincurra, 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
Ballincurra (Smallcounty By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49789, -8.43867
SMR number
LI032-271001-

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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

In rough wet pasture, to the immediate E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Ditch-barrow (LI032-271002-) and earthwork (LI032-271003-) lie 120m to ENE and ESE respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 234: AP 5/2018) as a rectangular-shaped earthwork in the NW corner of a field. Levelled monument is visible as a faint trace of a rectangular-shaped cropmark (20m E-W; 15m N-S) in NW corner of field, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 04/04/2013. A larger rectangular-shaped area (22m NNW-SSE; 21m ENE-WSW) is defined by two linear cropmarks enclosing the N and E sides of a rectangular-shaped area in the SW corner of the adjoining field to N and is likely to be a continuation of this monument.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 234

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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