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Moated site

Garryellen, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Garryellen, 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
Garryellen
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.56567, -8.61370
SMR number
LI022-090----

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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

Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This monument consists of a rectangular space which was surrounded by an earthen bank faced on the outside with stone. The bank remains only for a short distance on the east side and at the south-east corner. Surrounding the bank on the outside is a wide, deep water filled fosse. There is no causeway or other means of crossing this. The water is from 3' [0.9m] to 4' [1.2m] deep. Outside this there was an earthen bank. This has disappeared altogether on the east, but is continuous around the other sides. The monument measures 240' [73m] north to south by 180' [55m] overall. It is situated in low-land wet ground' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 229). Outline of tree-covered moated site visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 2 March 2020

References

O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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