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Enclosure

Ballyneety South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballyneety South, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyneety South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51250, -8.32733
SMR number
LI033-039002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture 60m W of stream and 250m S of Ballyneety House. One of three monuments aligned on a NW-SE axis. Ringfort (LI033-039001-) to immediate NE and enclosure (LI033-104----) to immediate SW. Not depicted on any OSi 6-inch maps. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 14m) enclosed by a bank (Wth 5.7m; H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) from S-NE and reduced a scarp (Wth 1.2m; H 0.3m) elsewhere, with fosse (Wth 6.1m; D 0.2m) best preserved from NW-W and ESE-SE; outer bank (Wth 5.15m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.15m) visible at NW and ESE. Monument intersected at S by field boundary running E-W and at N by drainage ditch running N-S. Outline of monument visible in centre of three earthworks on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 30 March 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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