Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballingayrour, County Limerick, Ireland
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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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 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
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.