Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Rathfreedy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfreedy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1840)
- Coordinates
- 52.45023, -8.98050
- SMR number
- LI037-091----
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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 level pasture. Roughly rectangular area (c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.4m) with an external fosse (D 0.3m). Possible entrance via break in bank (Wth. 6m) with ramp into fosse at NE. Interior level. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 33).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.