Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballynamona (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41237, -8.34045
- SMR number
- LI049-068----
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. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Enclosures (LI049-067/069----) lie 65m to the W and 50m to the E respectively. Earthwork identified as a sub-rectangular shaped cropmark on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,560; 0122) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a sub-rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 37m N-S x 43m E-W) defined by a wide fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cultivation ridges running roughly NE-SW visible to N of possible moated site on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.