Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballybeg (coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybeg (coonagh By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.52739, -8.22999
- SMR number
- LI033A010----
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, 91m N of townland boundary with Boherdotia, 200m W of county border with Tipperary, enclosures (LI033A009/A011----) lie 210m to the SW and 200 to the NE respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a small circular-shaped area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area defined by a tree -ined fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.