Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- 52.46335, -8.59025
- SMR number
- LI039-149----
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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 a modern coniferous forestry plantation 90m E of townland boundary with Ballincurra. Barrow (LI039-133----) lies 200m to E. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified from Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (AP 5/2063) as a possible enclosure. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020.
See attached Bruff aerial image with possible enclosure labelled Bruff 149 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 11 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.