Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygrennan (coshma By., Bruff Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46384, -8.55392
- SMR number
- LI040-001002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 pasture on the demesne lands of Ballygrennan Castle (LI040-007----) located 1km to E. Earthwork (LI039-116----) lies 25m to W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular-shaped cropmark during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2545, Site No 040264) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline (BGE 1/5000 2545) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.