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Concentric enclosure

Ballynatona (Coshlea By., Duntryleague ED), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Concentric enclosure, Ballynatona, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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.

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