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Cliff-edge fort

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cliff-edge fort, 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
52.39038, -8.41637
SMR number
LI048-043----

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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 pasture, immediately W Glounderrig stream that forms townland boundary with Glenlary. An earthwork (LI048-044----) lies 14m to the E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown as a cliff-edge fort on the 1897 OSi 25-inch map where it is depicted as a sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by two banks with intervening fosse from SE-S-W-NW and N-NE, entrance gap at NNW (Wth. int. bank 4.5m; Wth. ext. bank 8m), defined at E by scarp of Glounderrig ravine. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as one of ‘three forts, one near the W boundary’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 190). Tree-covered earthwork visible 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

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

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

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