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Moated site

Skehanagh (Pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Skehanagh, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Skehanagh (Pubblebrien By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.57820, -8.66611
SMR number
LI022-011----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On an E-facing slope, in pasture, with good views from NNE-E-SE and which are restricted elsewhere, 100m S of the townland boundary with Ballymurphy. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. An enclosure (LI022-013----) and a fulacht fiadh (LI022-012-----) lie 230m to ENE and 260m to NE. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a rectangular-shaped area (38m E-W; 30m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 2.2m; H 0.2m) and an external fosse (Overall Wth 5.45m; base Wth 2m; D 0.3m). The scarp is slightly raised above the interior level at the NE and SW corners. The fosse is visible along the W and N sides, it is absent along the N portion of the E side and the S side. The fosse has been recut as a land drain at the NW corner and along the central and S portion of the E side and an earthen field boundary aligns the outer edge. Monument is visible as a large oval-shaped tree-planted feature on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 01/10/2015 and 06/02/2018.

See attached sketch plan by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 11 August 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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