Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Elton, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elton
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43479, -8.44936
- SMR number
- LI040-165----
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 reclaimed pasture, 180m N of Elton House. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified as a rectangular enclosure during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 71) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 40m N-S; 50m E-W) defined by L-shaped cropmark from W to N transected by post-1700 field boundary at E and by drainage channel at S on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Enclosing cropmark visible as waterlogged fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 19/03/2015. Presence of waterlogged fosse acting a moat may indicate moated site classification. Alternatively may be the remains of a landscape feature associated with Elton House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 1 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.