Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynagallagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagallagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50388, -8.52696
- SMR number
- LI032-299----
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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 wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, 225m SW of a townland boundary with Loughgur and 775m S of Lough Gur. An enclosure (LI032-188----) lies 125m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 284: AP5/2011; McCloud colour neg. 16-17) as a rectilinear-shaped cropmark which is open to E. Possible, levelled monument is not visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, or on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 284 and McCloud colour neg. 16-17.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.