Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballincolloo, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincolloo
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44948, -8.52356
- SMR number
- LI040-059----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture, 110m E of townland boundary with Tankardstown, a possible barrow (LI040-060----) lies 110m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Circular cropmark (Site No. 040239) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/50000 2552) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument visible as a roughly circular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 22m N-S; 30m E-W) intersected at N and S by a linear cropmark running E-W on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE 1/50000 2552) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 29 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 344/24 on 05/01/2003.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.