Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyshonikin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshonikin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.35012, -8.60829
- SMR number
- LI055-003----
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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 level pasture, on slight NNW facing slope with good views in all directions, 100m NW of townland boundary with Ballymacshaneboy. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp intersected from NE-E-SE by a field drain. Described in 1999, as a raised circular shaped area (dim. c. 26m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp with fosse (Overall Wth 5.35m; int. D 2.2m; ext. D 1.65m) from NE-SE and external fosse (Overall Wth 3.3m; int. D 1.45m; ext. D 1.4m) from NW-N-E-SE. Interior level and densely overgrown at margins. Fosses waterlogged and may be field drains. Monument visible as circular tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 November 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.