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Moated site

Ballinvreena (Coshlea By., Glenbrohane ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Ballinvreena, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballinvreena (Coshlea By., Glenbrohane ED)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.39681, -8.42913
SMR number
LI048-040----

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David 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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In rough pasture, adjacent to Ballinreena Cross Roads. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 OSi 25-inch map as a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 35m NW-SE; 42m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as one of ‘three forts,’ in the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 190). Monument visible a rectangular-shaped area enclosed by a tree-covered bank from NE-E-S-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 17 August 2021

References

OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.

Westropp, T.J. 1919 The ancient places of assembly in the counties Limerick and Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 49, 1-24.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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