Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynagoul, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynagoul
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.37298, -8.66960
- SMR number
- LI047-031----
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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 reclaimed pasture, 90m E of a watercourse and immediately N of the townland boundary with Ballincolly. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 21m N-S; 18m E-W) defined by a scarp which forms townland boundary from N-S-NW. Outline of monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped area delimited by bushes from N-S-NW and by a scarp at NW with an external drainage ditch visible from S-NW on Google Earth orthoimage 01/04/2021.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.