Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
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
- 52.42082, -8.43920
- SMR number
- LI040-113----
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 S of townland boundary with Doonmoon. Possible barrows (LI040-116/117----) lie 100m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a complex of rectangular features on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, Strip map 4, Site 4/43) taken 03/11/1984. Relic field boundary depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Faint trace of linear cropmarks in S quadrant of field visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 19/03/2015.
See attached BGE aerial photograph (Strip map 4, Site 4/43) and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 21 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.