Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Shanbally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanbally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60411, -8.89386
- SMR number
- LI011-112----
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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 pasture, on E-facing slope. Ovoid area (c. 20m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.82m) NNE->WNW. Field wall along line of bank WNW->NNE obscuring line of enclosing bank; slight trace of a fosse (D 0.45m; Base Wth 0.7m) to N of wall. Bank best preserved at SW (ext. H 1.41m). Interior only accessible in NE quadrant due to dense overgrowth; noticeably raised SW quadrant (H c. 2.3m) littered with stones and boulders possibly derived from recent reclamation of adjoining pasture field to S. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 35).
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.