Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36731, -8.47950
- SMR number
- LI048-055----
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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 E of townland boundary with Kilfinnane. A standing stone (LI048-110----) and pits (LI048-111001/003-) lie 105m to the SW. Depicted as square-shaped field and not as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-rectangular shaped platform (dims. c. 38m NW-SE; 40m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as a raised rectangular-shaped area defined by a partial tree-lined bank and outer fosse 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: 18 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.