Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinstona North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.44259, -8.55467
- SMR number
- LI039-090----
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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 200m NE of the ruins of Ballinstona House and immediately S of Ballinastona Cottage. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the Cassini OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (diam. c. 18m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by a fosse. Outline of monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark partially covered with scrub on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Possible landscape feature or tree-ring associated with Ballinstona Cottage to N.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 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.