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