Moated site

The National Monuments Service's description

In reclaimed pasture, immediately N of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Tobernea East. Pouladragoon Bridge 119m to E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a large circular-shaped earthwork, intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a large sub-circular shaped area (dims. c. 93m N-S x 83m E-W) enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank with gap in outer bank at W. External bank and fosse transected at S by stream running E-W. Described by H. A. Wheeler in 1974 as follows; ‘This appears to be the side of a medieval moated house and to be of considerable archaeological interest’ (SMR file). Monument visible as a large sub-circular area enclosed by a single tree-lined bank with fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Traces of cropmark of levelled inner enclosing bank visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 8 September 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

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.

Barry, T.B. 1981 The shifting frontier: medieval moated sites in counties Cork and Limerick. In F.A. Aberg and A.E. Brown (eds), Medieval moated sites in north-west Europe, 71-85. Oxford. British Archaeological Reports. International Series, 121.