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
- 52.38597, -8.31582
- SMR number
- LI049-137----
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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, 175m NW of townland boundary with Garrynalyna, an enclosure (LI049-135----) lies 80 to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6 inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SW by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 23m NW-SE; 27m NE-SW;) enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SE-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area defined by tree-lined bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.