Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Ballynamona (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynamona (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41437, -8.34263
- SMR number
- LI049-253----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 225m E of the townland boundary with Duntryleague. Earthwork (LI049-067----) lies 190m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a circular feature during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000, 78) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline. Monument is visible as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 27m) defined by a fosse on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018 where it is truncated at N by field boundary running E-W. Visible as a circular cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 21/06/2021.
See attached Bórd Gáis Éireann aerial photo and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 7 October 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.