Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Moig North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moig North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.63130, -8.96717
- SMR number
- LI011-036----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop hill with panoramic views over surrounding countryside. Roughly rectangular raised area (60m N-S; 51.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.30m; ext. H 0.70m) with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.2m) SW->W. Bank, best preserved at N, becomes scarp-like at SE. Low raised lip (Wth 4m) defined by scarp edge (H 0.28m) runs along base of inner bank face SW->NW. Uneven interior, under pasture, dips down towards the NE quadrant. Small clearance heap of earth and stones in SE quadrant.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.