Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Cahercorney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cahercorney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.52518, -8.48739
- SMR number
- LI032-196----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, 580m W of the Camoge River which also marks a townland boundary with Ballinard. A complex of 12 monuments (LI032-073001-/013-) lies 280m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 149: AP 4/3638), as a semicircular-shaped cropmark to the immediate E of a field boundary running NW-SE. Monument is visible as a subrectilinear-shaped earthwork (24m ENE-WSW; 31m NNW-SSE) defined by a bank and adjoining a field boundary running NW-SE, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/09/2020.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage, Bruff aerial survey image labelled 149.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 13 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.