Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinard, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinard
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52750, -8.46487
- SMR number
- LI032-302----
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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, 45m S of a townland boundary with Cloghaviller, in the valley of the Camoge River which is 870m to W. Cashels (LI032-086/087/085----) lie approx. 320m to S and SW. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 288: AP4/3636) as a long rectangular-shaped earthwork in the S corner of a field. Upstanding monument is visible as a long rectangular-shaped area (64m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW) defined by a bank/scarp with external fosse, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020. A field boundary running ENE-WSW traverses the monument across the SE portion.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 288.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 28 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.