Earthwork in Ballymacashel, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In wet, level pasture with limited views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small roughly circular-shaped earthwork, with barony boundary to W. Monument visited by the ASI in 2001 when it was described as no surface remains visible. Site of levelled monument is obscured by a linear tract of scrub running roughly N-S on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI012-011

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Maker not stated on source page, uk.pinterest.com
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Ballybrown GAA Club (official club website publisher); individual photographer not named, ballybrowngaa.com
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Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry) H. Griffiths (engraver), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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