Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Grillagh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grillagh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48905, -8.52946
- SMR number
- LI032-216----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, cut by land drains and watercourses, 55m N of a townland boundary with Ballydaheen. Bullaun stone (LI032-123----) lies 270m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 293: AP 5/2010), as a rectilinear-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a rectilinear-shaped cropmark (40m NW-SE; 41m NE-SW), which is best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and is visible as a similar shaped and sized, faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 293
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.