Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballincarroona (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballincarroona (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.34354, -8.59558
- SMR number
- LI055-005----
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 level wet pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 15m) enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank from SSE-S-SW. Described in 1999 as no surface remains visible. According to landowner the monument was levelled in his grandfather’s time and was known locally as a moat.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.