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Enclosure

Ballingayrour, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Ballingayrour, 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
Ballingayrour
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.45889, -8.57221
SMR number
LI039-120----

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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 reclaimed pasture 125m N of a watercourse and 40m W of townland boundary with Knockuregare. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible monument identified as a potential site of a circular enclosure visible on aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 50) taken 11/09/1982 as part of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Wet area of ground, small pond feature in reclaimed grassland visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 may be the feature identified on gas pipeline aerial.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 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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