Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballincurra (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincurra (Coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45655, -8.59922
- SMR number
- LI039-153----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 200m E of the townland boundary with Rathcannon. Hillfort (LI039-029----) lies 550m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 34; AP 5/2063) as a possible enclosure. Visible as a faint cropmark from W-N-NE on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of D-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 25m N-S x 24m E-W) with straight side at E (L 28m) clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016.
See attached Bruff aerial photographs (34) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 11 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - Bronze Ageunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.