Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Balline, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balline
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43577, -8.50029
- SMR number
- LI040-159----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (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, 25m E of road that forms townland boundary with Gormanstown. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified as a circular cropmark during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 63) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Possible linear cropmark of trackway running roughly NE-SW visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.