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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41170, -8.33885
- SMR number
- LI049-070----
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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, earthwork (LI049-069---) lies immediately to the N. Not marked on OSi 6-inch maps. Described by Ó Ríordáin (1936, 181-182) as a ‘series of conjoined rectangular platform forts. Part of one was excavated. The only finds were an ornamented quern and some fragments of glazed pottery. One green glazed piece Mr. Westropp thinks to be 14th century ware. Sections were cut through the fosse in two places and in section AB near the bottom of the fosse were found animal-bones - pig, young calf and ox’.
Monument visible as a series of rectangular-shaped cropmarks on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. These earthworks are clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached location map of earthworks marked 'd' and plan of excavated site taken from Ó Ríordáin (1936, 181-182) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 September
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Ó Ríordáin, S.P. 1936 Excavations at Lissard, Co. Limerick and other sites in the locality. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 66, 173-85.
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.