Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyloundash, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyloundash
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52274, -8.45042
- SMR number
- LI032-283----
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 reclaimed pasture, 40m SE of a public road which marks a townland boundary with Rootiagh to NW. Moated site (LI032-203----) lies 22m to NNE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 155.02: AP 4/3635), as a circular-shaped cropmark. Monument is barely visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 10m) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013. Monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 155.02.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 25 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.