Watercourse in Ballinfreera — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Clear water once cut through wet pasture near the River Maigue, leaving a meandering mark still visible in grass and shadow. People may have followed its bend to drink, wash or reach hidden ground before field boundaries closed the way. The watercourse disappeared from later maps, but the land remembers its path beneath feet and rain.

In wet pasture 96m W of the River Maigue which forms townland boundary with Inchinclare and 30m NE of townland boundary with Ballyphillips, a burial ground (LI031-124----) lies 250m to NE. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a hollow-way (dims. L 56m) running NW-SE, flanked on either side by an earthen bank intersected at NW and SE by post-1700 field boundaries. A field boundary (L c. 250m) running NW-SE indicated on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and not depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map which suggests that it was levelled between these dates. Traces of this field boundary are visible on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. Earthwork is visible as a meandering linear cropmark on the OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. The aerial imagery suggests that the meandering remains of this earthwork may be the remains of a watercourse rather than that a sunken road. Earthwork is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 March 2021

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