Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballingayrour, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballingayrour
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44472, -8.57591
- SMR number
- LI039-038----
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 pasture, 125m N of townland boundary with Ballinstona. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised triangular-shaped area (dims. c. 19m N-S; 26m E-W at N; 14m E-W at S) defined by a scarp. Poorly preserved monument visible as D-shaped area defined by a fosse with rectangular shaped area to N, on aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 13, 14) taken 05/01/2003. Monument visible as circular-shaped area (diam. c. 31m) enclosed by overgrown fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. The interior appears raised on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018.
See attached Archaeological Survey of Ireland aerial photograph (ASIAP (346) 13, 14) taken 05/01/2003 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 April 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.