Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynamona (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.42185, -8.35067
- SMR number
- LI041-024----
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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 a clearing within a modern coniferous plantation. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site. Faint outline of monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 15 July 2021
References
Barry, T.B. 1981 The shifting frontier: medieval moated sites in counties Cork and Limerick. In F.A. Aberg and A.E. Brown (eds), Medieval moated sites in north-west Europe, 71-85. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 121.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.