Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Oldabbey, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldabbey
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56982, -9.07381
- SMR number
- LI019-024----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, atop low hill. Roughly rectangular area (47m SE-NW; 29m NE-SW) enclosed by earth and stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.4m) with external fosse (Base Wth. 4m; D 0.2m) ESE->WSW, scarp-edge (ext. H 0.45m) WSW->WNW and field boundary WNW->ESE. Bank is covered with elder and whitethorn trees. Field boundary, meeting in a corner at NNW, is slightly curved NNE->ESE. Interior under pasture with W half sloping down to the NW.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 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.