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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
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.57782, -8.65958
SMR number
LI022-016----

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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

In gently undulating pasture, with moderate to restricted views in all directions. A townland boundary with Ballyshane lies 45m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork and on the revised 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped tree-planted earthwork. An enclosure (LI022-013----) lies 240m to NW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a raised, roughly rectangular-shaped area (23.5m E-W; 22m N-S) enclosed by the remains of an earth and stone bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) and a fosse (overall Wth 7.2m; base Wth 4m; D 0.2m) with a causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) at SE. The bank is present all around although is almost reduced to a scarped edge, being best preserved at the NW, NE and SW corners where it is at its highest (int. H 0.5m) above the level of the interior. The fosse is visible along the S half of the E side and for the duration of the S and W sides. The interior is level, dry and planted with mature ash trees. The monument appears to be a moated site that has been landscape as a grove of trees. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped tree-planted earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.

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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