Earthwork in Ballybrien, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

In reclaimed pasture 250m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Lisnalanniv. Farmhouse depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 36m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW). Visible as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Earthwork appears to represent the levelled remains of the farmhouse depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI057-034

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