Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballynacourty (coshlea By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacourty (coshlea By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31526, -8.42320
- SMR number
- LI056-055----
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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 90m NE of castle (LI056-048----). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an enclosure by archaeologist Brian Hodkinson in 2003. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 34m) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 16 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.