Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinstona North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.43966, -8.55746
- SMR number
- LI039-089----
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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 partially reclaimed poorly drained pasture 15m N of the townland boundary with Ballinstona South. Ruins of Ballinstona House lie 160m to NE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (dims. c. 22m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Outline of monument is visible as a circular shaped area defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.