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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.52907, -8.22812
- SMR number
- LI033A011----
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, 36m W of County boundary with Tipperary South, an enclosure (LI033A010----) lies 205m to the SW. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) defined by a scarp and an external fosse from W-N-E. Monument is clearly visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.