Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinlough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51735, -8.41763
- SMR number
- LI032-294----
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 improved pasture, 75m E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynagranagh. St Bridget’s Well (LI032-111----) lies 120m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 200: AP 4/3611) as a penannular-shaped enclosure defined by an upstanding bank and which is open to S. Levelled monument is visible as a very faint penannular-shaped cropmark (approx. 28m N-S; 24m E-W) from WSW-W-N-E, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 200
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 27 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.