Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynahinch, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahinch
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41929, -8.44334
- SMR number
- LI040-112----
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 reclaimed pasture. Not marked on the OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, 2567) taken 03/11/1984. Linear cropmarks running roughly E-W visible on Digital Globe orthoimage which may represent drainage channels associated with land reclamation with Knocktoran House. Earthwork visible as rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 75m N-S; 20m E-W) intersected at S by a linear cropmark running roughly E-W, on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/04/2019.
See attached BGE aerial photograph (040269)and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.