Burial Ground in Ballinfreera, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet pasture 40m W of the River Maigue and 250m NE of a road (LI031-082----). Annotated ‘Burial Ground’ on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) in W corner of small field with ‘Connor’s Well’ 50m to S. Not depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map indicating that the burial ground was levelled between these map dates. Described in 1904-05 as ‘a burial ground’ (Westropp 1904-05, 412). No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 or on any Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI031-124

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