Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballygubba North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygubba North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.41945, -8.60500
- SMR number
- LI039-107----
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 wet pasture 100m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 80m NW-SE; 75m NE-SW) bisected by a drainage channel running NNW-SSE. Levelled earthwork surveyed by the ASI when all that survived was the slightly curved edge of an elevated area at W. The double drainage ditch which bisected the monument was described as ‘two parallel ditches about 2m deep between which there is a raised bank and must have been constructed for drainage purposes between 1840-1920’. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 4 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.