Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathaboira, hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathaboira - hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36048, -8.48631
- SMR number
- LI048-053----
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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, 205m E of townland boundary with Ballinlyna Lower. An enclosure (LI048-108----) lies 135m to the NW. Annotated ‘Rathaboirra’ on the historic OSi maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch sheet as a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped platform (diam. c. 19m) defined by a steep scarp. Monument visible as a raised circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp with fosse and possibly two levelled banks with intervening fosse truncated at N by a relic post-1700 field boundary running E-W, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.