Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Killacolla (shanid By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killacolla (shanid By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58551, -9.24438
- SMR number
- LI018-006----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map and as rectangular enclosure (L: c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m E-W), missing its SE side, on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to local information site was an embanked rectangular enclosure levelled c. 1980 when surrounding field boundaries removed.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.