Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Ballinvreena (coshlea By., Glenbrohane Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
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----
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 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
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.