Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Mountblakeney, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountblakeney
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.38434, -8.64134
- SMR number
- LI047-037----
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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. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a square-shaped earthwork. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a square-shaped area (dims. c. 46m NW-SE; 46m NE-SW) defined by a bank reduced to a scarp at S with external bank from SE-S-W and NW-N-NE and intervening fosse. Truncated at N and E by a drainage channel. Described by Westropp (1916/1917, 21) as a fort measuring ‘250 feet [74.2m] across’. Levelled monument visible as square-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 48m N-S by 52m E-W), intersected at NE by a linear cropmark running roughly E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 8 September 2021
References
Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.
Nearby in the register
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.