Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballintober, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintober
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36300, -8.39252
- SMR number
- LI049-167----
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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 200m W of the townland boundary with Glenaree. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 31m) defined by a scarp from E-S-W. Truncated at N by a field boundary running NE-SW and at NE by a drain running NW-SE. Visible as a raised roughly circular shaped area on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and as a faint cropmark on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 25 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.