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
- 52.41766, -8.42236
- SMR number
- LI040-129----
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 wet pasture, 30m W of a watercourse that forms townland boundary with Island Dromagh, possible barrows (LI040-127001-/002-) lie 110m to the W. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as linear cropmarks on aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, Strip map 4, site 4/37) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument visible as 2 linear cropmarks parallel to each other and running N-S in a field containing cultivation ridges running E-W, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Also visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. Linear earthworks may represent teh remains of post-1700 drainage channels associated with land reclamation rather than the remains of a medieval field system.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 15 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.