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Earthwork

Ballinlee North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballinlee 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
Ballinlee North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46080, -8.57076
SMR number
LI039-121----

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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 150m E of townland boundary with Ballingayrour. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible sub-rectangular shaped earthwork identified from examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 52) taken 11/09/1982 as part of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument is visible as a sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 38m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse intersected at N and SE by field boundaries on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Visible as a faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.

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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