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Earthwork

Ballynoe (Connello Upper By., Ballynoe ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballynoe, 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
Ballynoe (Connello Upper By., Ballynoe ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.43864, -8.81691
SMR number
LI038-168----

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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)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (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

Cropmark of roughly oval-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 65m) on poorly drained land visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. This earthwork may be related to land reclamation and could be the remains of a small raised paddock or field of post-1700 date.

See attached image from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 16/03/2016

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère

Date of upload: 15 April 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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