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Enclosure

Ballinlee, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballinlee, 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
Ballinlee
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.46800, -8.55941
SMR number
LI039-045----

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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)
  • 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

In pasture, 10m W of townland boundary with Ballygrennan, 66m E and 47m S of townland boundaries with Ballinlee North and Brackvoan, respectively. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 33m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a fosse intersected from SW-W by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on aerial photograph (McCloud Photo AA41) associated with work on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline where it was classified as a 'platform ringfort'. Levelled monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 7 April 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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