Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynalacken, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynalacken
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.37045, -8.36990
- SMR number
- LI049-172----
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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, 230m W of townland boundary with Bohereenkyle. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 21m NW-SE; 30m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as a sunken oval-shaped area enclosed by a bank with fosse, external bank and outer fosse, truncated at N by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.