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
- 52.45983, -8.45381
- SMR number
- LI040-271002-
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 wet pasture on the floodplains of the Camoge River that forms townland boundary with Rathanny. In the centre of a promontory fort (LI040-271001), a group of five barrows – ring-barrows (LI040-270001-/005-) lie to the E. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 137, AP 5/2101) as a circular cropmark of possible enclosure. No surface remains visible on the Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimage.
See attached Bruff photograph labelled 137.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 July 2021
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
- Promontory fort - inlandunder 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.