Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cist
Balline, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balline
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Stone Graves (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.40103, -8.45317
- SMR number
- LI048-015003-
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 pasture, immediately N of Emlygrennan Church (LI048-015001-) which stood in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (LI048-015002-). Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch. Annotated ‘Stone Graves’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. The annotation 'Stone Graves' may refer to the location of two stone lined burial or cist burials immediately N of boundary wall of Emlygrennan graveyard (LI048-015002-).
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.