Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Carnane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carnane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57261, -8.58437
- SMR number
- LI022-197----
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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 gently undulating pasture with moderate views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-196----) lies 200m to N. Identified from Bruff Survey aerial photographs taken 1986 (Bruff 67; AP 4/3707) as a rectangular-shaped cropmark. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a rectangular shaped area (56m N-S; 45m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (Wth 2.5m; H 0.4m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.1m; D 0.4m). A shallow ditch (Wth 1.8m; D 0.2m) intersects the fosse at NW. Outline of monument is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018.
See attached sketch plan drawn by the ASI, Bruff Aerial Survey photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 11 August 2020
References
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.