Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynatona (coshlea By., Duntryleague Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.38990, -8.31673
- SMR number
- LI049-136----
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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, 150m W of townland boundary with Garrynalyna, an enclosure (LI049-138----) lies 30 to the SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6 inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 31m NW-SE; 39m NE-SW) defined by a scarp, with fosse intersected at NE by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area overgrown with trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and the Google Earth orthoimage.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 October 2021
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.