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Barrow - unclassified

Ballyneety South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, 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
52.51219, -8.32751
SMR number
LI033-104----

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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 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

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

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