Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyroe Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroe Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.36117, -8.48864
- SMR number
- LI048-108----
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 reclaimed pasture 95m S of the townland boundary with Ballinanima. Mound (LI048-053----) lies 135m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic 6-inch maps. Identified by ASI from examination of Microsoft Bing aerial photographs. Cropmark visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.