Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Lisnagreeve
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lisnagreeve, Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.38721, -8.32231
- SMR number
- LI049-130----
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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, 140m NE of townland boundary with Spittle. Annotated 'Lisnagreeve' on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a large circular-shaped earthwork, truncated at SE and S by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-circular shaped platform (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by an external bank. Monument visible as circular area enclosed by a bank with fosse and external bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on the Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.