Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
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
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.41229, -8.33898
- SMR number
- LI049-069----
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 wet pasture, possible moated site (LI049-068----) lies 50m to the W and earthwork (LI049-070----) lies 40m to the SW. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 37m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a scarp with fosse from N-E-S, bisected by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Scrub-covered monument 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: 28 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.