Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyvouden, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvouden
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53019, -8.39718
- SMR number
- LI033-062001-
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 wet pasture, 125m W of a stream. Ring barrow (LI024-214----) lies 25m to NE and enclosure (LI033-117----) 80m to W. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 52; AP 4/3631) as a circular cropmark. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012, on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 and on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP).
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 23 March 2021
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 132/35 23/08/2000. 352/24, 25 and 353/8, 11, 12, 14, 13, 14 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.