Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballygubba South, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygubba South
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.41504, -8.60304
- SMR number
- LI047-014----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In reclaimed pasture 17m S of the R518 roadway that marks townland boundary with Ballygubba North. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 20m N-S; 27m E-W) defined by a scarp which has been partial levelled or quarried into at S. Visible as a raised oval-shaped area on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at W by a modern property boundary running N-S.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.