Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Duckstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Duckstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.48812, -8.92223
- SMR number
- LI029-095----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on relatively flat low-lying terrain. Rectangular area (39m N-S; 33.5m E-W) enclosed by earth and stone bank (int. H 0.33m; ext. H 0.90m) with external fosse (Base Wth 1.1m; D 0.2m) SE->N. Cattle break (Wth 3m) in bank at SSE; bank denuded by cattle and is best preserved at NW. Field boundary runs SE-NW across site to NE of centre; NE corner of site to NE of field boundary levelled. Interior level and under pasture. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 15).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.