Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
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
- 52.41745, -8.42933
- SMR number
- LI040-119----
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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, a ring-ditch (LI040-121----) lies 70m to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as a semicircular-shaped feature in SE corner of field intersected at S by a relic post-1700 field boundary on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2570, 2569) taken 03/11/1984 . No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 5m) intersected at S by relic field boundary running E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph (No. 040250) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 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.