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Moated site

Mornane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Mornane, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mornane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.62844, -8.89963
SMR number
LI011-063----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on gently-undulating terrain. Rectangular slightly raised area (39.5m N-S; 60.8m E-W) enclosed by inner earthen bank, outer earthen bank and intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.65m) survives NNW-> N; elsewhere defined by scarped edge (H 1.65m). Outer bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.52m) best preserved along SE->SW, does not survive along W side where clipped by field wall running along base of fosse; field wall merges with inner scarp edge at NW where it forms gap (Wth 3.2m). Outer bank replaced by earth and stone field bank along N and E sides, gap (Wth 4.2m) at NW corner. Interior, used as small pasture field, slightly higher S half due to outcropping limestone. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 29).
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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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