Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballincurra (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurra (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.49757, -8.43662
- SMR number
- LI032-271003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 rough wet pasture, 135m E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Ditch-barrow (LI032-271002-) lies 55m to N and enclosure (LI32-271001-) lies 115m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 236: AP 5/2018) as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (27m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a fosse, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 236
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 22 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.