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Moated site

Lisgordan, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Lisgordan, 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
Lisgordan
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1923)
Coordinates
52.51886, -9.06600
SMR number
LI028-013----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on break in E-facing slope. Roughly square area slightly raised (31.1m N-S; 30m E-W) with rounded corners, enclosed by earthen bank with trace of external fosse (Base Wth 2m; D 0.35) SSW->SW. Though densely covered with overgrowth, the bank is evident all round but best preserved on N side (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.9m). Break (Wth 1.4m) in bank at WNW. Field boundaries link to bank at N, NE and SSE. Corrugated iron shed built against external bank face at ESE; farm trackway skirts external base of bank at S. Interior under pasture; E half slopes gently down to E. Upright stone (H 0.5m; Wth 0.27m; T 0.21m; Long axis E-W), narrowing slightly towards top, in S half of interior. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 28).
Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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