Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballyvulhane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyvulhane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.45612, -8.53273
- SMR number
- LI040-050005-
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, immediately N of townland boundary with Tankardstown, in SE quadrant of a field system (LI040-050001-), a rectangular enclosure (LI040-050004-) lies 50m to the SE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 82 (1); AP 5/2108) as a small circular mound. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Bruff survey image showing mound and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.