Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballincurra (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurra (Coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.46072, -8.59847
- SMR number
- LI039-032----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Described by Doody (2008, 136) as a 'subrectangular ditched enclosure, c. 35m x 45m, with internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 11 November 2013
References
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.