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Earthwork

Ballinstona North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballinstona North, 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
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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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 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

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

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