Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Moohane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moohane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51669, -8.48406
- SMR number
- LI032-078----
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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, wet pasture, which is cut by land drains and watercourses, 180m SW of the Camoge River which also marks a townland boundary with Herbertstown (O’Grady). Enclosures (LI032-07902-/07901-) lie 190m and 220m to NE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified by Grogan (1989, 242) as a circular-shaped cropmark and labelled as ‘Moohane 2’. Cropmark of circular shaped feature (diam. c. 23m) visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-2012 which may be 'Moohane 2'. Faint outline visible on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 6 November 2020
References
Grogan, E. 1989 The Early Prehistory of the Lough Gur Region: Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterns in North Munster, south of the River Shannon, 3 Vols. Doctoral PhD Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Archaeology, University College Dublin.
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- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.