Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballycahill, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44216, -8.43928
- SMR number
- LI040-185----
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, 175m E of townland boundary with Elton, an enclosure (LI040-263----) lies 95m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 115; AP 5/2123) as a possible enclosure. Monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 16m N-S; 8m N-E) transected at N by post-1700 field boundary on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Bruff aerial photograph marked 115 and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 27 May 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.