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Earthwork

Ballincolloo, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Ballincolloo, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballincolloo
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.45093, -8.51320
SMR number
LI040-265----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture, 155m W of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Baggotstown West. Ballincolloo House lies 100m to the SE. An earthwork (LI040-205----) lies 50m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (AP 5/2107) as a rectangular-shaped cropmark of a possible enclosure. Monument visible as a rectangular-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 30m N-S; 25m E-W) bisected by a relic post-1700 field boundary running N-S on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 6 July 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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