TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Promontory fort - inland

Ballycahill, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Promontory fort - inland, Ballycahill, 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
Ballycahill
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.45992, -8.45401
SMR number
LI040-271001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on partially drained grassland at junction of Camoge River immediately to N with stream to SW both of which forms the townland boundary with Rathanny. Large impressive barrow (LI040-026001-) 90m to ENE. A cluster of ring-barrows (LI040-027001-005-) located immediately SE of the fort. Aerial photographs (Bruff AP 5/2101) shows a fosse (approx. L 60m) running roughly NE-SW cutting off a rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 120m NW-SE x 60m NE-SW) bordered by the Camoge River from E-N-NW and a stream from NW-W-SW. Linear fosse cutting off neck of promontory is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs and on various OSI aerial photographs.

See attached Digital Globe aerial photograph taken 14/09/2019

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 30 January 2020

See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 347/20 on 05/01/2003.

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Promontory fort - inland in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map