Moated site

The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture, 170m W of a stream, which marks townland boundary with Knockballyfookeen (O'Dwyer 1959, 73; Barry 1981, 83). Annotated 'Rathbaun' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a square-shaped earthwork. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a roughly square-shaped area (38m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.45m; Wth 3.6m) best preserved at NW and NE with external fosse (overall Wth c. 4.35m; D 0.5m) that has been filled in at SE and SW, possible entrance gap (Wth 4m) at WSW. There are livestock gaps (Wth 1.5m and Wth 3m) at NW and NE where the bank is reduced to a scarp. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.

See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 15 July 2020

References

O'Dwyer, M. 1958-61 A survey of the earthworks in Old Pallasgrean, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 8, 69-78, 111-15.

Barry, T.B. 1981 The shifting frontier: medieval moated sites in counties Cork and Limerick. In F.A. Aberg and A.E. Brown (eds), Medieval moated sites in north-west Europe, 71-85. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 121.