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Earthwork

Moanroe (Coonagh By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Earthwork, Moanroe, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Moanroe (Coonagh By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Partially hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.54708, -8.26310
SMR number
LI025-014----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a gentle S-facing slope, in young forestry, with moderate to good views in all directions and 122m E of a townland boundary with Ballyvalode. Enclosures (LI024-012/013----) lie 130m to W and 160m to SW, respectively. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectilinear-shaped earthwork which is truncated by a field boundary running E-W, to N. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 1999 and described as a raised subcircular-shaped area (17m E-W; 16m N-S) defined by a scarp (Wth 1.3m; H 0.45m) from NE-E-S-W-NW with external fosse (overall Wth 3.5m; basal Wth 1.2m; D 0.3m) from NE-E-S-W-NW, which is very faint from SE-S-SSW. There is no obvious entrance feature, although there is a cattle breach (Wth 0.7m) in the scarp at S. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. It has been quarried across the N-sector leaving a linear depression running E-W from which the material appears to have been cast up to N, forming a field boundary parallel to the depression. Monument is visible as an unplanted rectangular-shaped, partially tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018

Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly

Date of upload: 18 October 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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