Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Killeen (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen (coshlea By., Ballylanders Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39203, -8.35018
- SMR number
- LI049-117----
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 pasture, immediately S of the Ahatemple Stream, enclosure (LI049-116----) lies 140m to the SW. Not marked on historic OSi 6 maps. Potential enclosure identified as a D-shaped cropmark intersected at NE and E, by Ahatemple Stream running NW-SE on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; Site 3/26) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as a roughly D-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of irregular-shaped earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached BGE aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 October 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.