Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballyneety South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyneety South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51219, -8.32751
- SMR number
- LI033-104----
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 reclaimed pasture 100m W of watercourse and 260m S of Ballyneety House. One of three monuments aligned on a NW-SE axis. Enclosure (LI033-039002-) to immediate NE and ringfort (LI033-039001-) 50m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 98; AP 4/3618) as an enclosure. Visible as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) enclosed by a fosse, truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff image
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.