Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Aughinish East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinish East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.61754, -9.06011
- SMR number
- LI010-108----
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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 level terrain, recently planted with trees. No visible surface trace of site depicted as roughly rectangular hachured area (c. 25m E-W; c. 25m N-S) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, but not shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Listed by Barry as a moated site (Barry 1981, 83; site no. 1).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Barry, T.B. 1981 The shifting frontier: medieval moated sites in counties Cork and Limerick. In F.A. Aberg and A.E. Brown (eds), Medieval moated sites in north-west Europe, 71-85. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 121.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.