Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Drombanny, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drombanny
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.62476, -8.58456
- SMR number
- LI013-054----
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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
The site of a monument that is depicted on 1840 OS map as a rectangular enclosure (c. 110m SW-NE; c. 60m NW-SE), is now an abandoned limestone quarry. Traces of a bank (L 8.8m; Wth 0.75m), running roughly E-W, evident on the E side of the quarry may be related to the monument. Barry (1981, 84 Site 13) lists this as a moated site.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 28 March 2013
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.