Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cliff-edge fort
Ballinlyna Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlyna Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.34435, -8.47921
- SMR number
- LI056-015002-
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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, immediately N of townland boundary with Clovers. A standing stone (LI056-015002-) lies to immediate W. 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 D-shaped area (dims. c. 23m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-W-N-E-SE, with gaps at NW and NE, defined at S by a scarp of watercourse running NE-SW. In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). No surface remains of levelled monument on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. Faint trace of D-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 24 November 2021
References
O’Shaughnessy, D.F. and Carroll, P. 1931 Tara Luachra. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 36, No. 144, 69-75.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.