Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Honeypound, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Honeypound
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53153, -8.70838
- SMR number
- LI021-105----
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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 lowlying wet pasture with good views in all directions. A townland boundary with Skagh lies 110m to SW and a townland boundary with Corrabull lies 155m to SE. Moated site (Barry 1981, 84) surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a raised rectangular-shaped area (approx. 15m E-W; 12m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 3.2m; H 0.8m) and an external fosse (basal Wth 2m; overall Wth 6.4m; D 0.6m). Relic field boundary follows the outer line of the fosse along the N side. Monument is visible as a tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 July 2020
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.