Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Ballinlyna Lower, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinlyna Lower
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.34657, -8.47837
- SMR number
- LI056-016----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, immediately S of a track running roughly E-W. A standing stone (LI056-017----) lies 55m to the NE. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Souterrain’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a small opening immediately S of a farm trackway where it intersects with a post 1700 field boundary running roughly E-W. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 25 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Stone circleunder 1 mi
- Cliff-edge fortunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.