Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Garrynderk North, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrynderk North
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.37749, -8.64932
- SMR number
- LI047-064----
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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 75m W of railway track. Bivallate Ringfort (LI047-063----) lies 90m to SW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 16m NE-SW; 22m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank with wide berm and external bank from SE-W-NE reduced to a scarp elsewhere, forms field boundary wall from NE-S. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site no. 31. Outline of shrub-covered monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 13 August 2021
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.