Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballyhobin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhobin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.55490, -8.45179
- SMR number
- LI023-201----
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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 improved wet pasture, 30m W of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI023-202----) 75m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a substantial subrectangular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 188: AP 4/3688). Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork (approx. 70m N-S; 60m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage 05/04/2006 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 188.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 4 September 2020
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.