Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Garravin, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garravin
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56257, -8.28019
- SMR number
- LI024-282----
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, improved pasture cut by land drains and watercourses, in the valley of the Reask River 200m to S of a townland boundary with Reask. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland as a subrectangular-shaped cropmark on oblique aerial photos (ASIAP, 118, 2 & 5) taken 23/08/2000. Monument is visible as a large subrectangular-shaped bivallate enclosure (70m N-S; 77m E-W) on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. Possible field system in field to N of moated site.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018 and ASI oblique aerial images taken 23/08/2000.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 12 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.