Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballymartin (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymartin (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.53939, -8.63631
- SMR number
- LI022-129----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 low-lying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions abutting a stream. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000, and described as a roughly rectangular-shaped area (30m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW ) defined by a scarp with external fosse (Base Wth 1.9m; Overall Wth 5.9m; int. D 0.3m; ext. D 0.2m) visible from SW-W-N-E-ESE. Interior is level and clear of overgrowth. The monument is visible as a rectangular shaped enclosure on the OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimages 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2017. Faint trace of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 7 August 2020
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.