Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballygillane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygillane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.37110, -8.53540
- SMR number
- LI048-029----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, 55m W of townland boundary with Ballynamoloogh and 85m SW of townland boundary with Flemingstown. ‘Gotoon fort’ (LI048-030----) lies 310m to the NE. Depicted as a non-antiquity on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, where it is shown as a rectangular-shaped field. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 40m NW-SE; 42m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank reduced to a scarp at NW with fosse from SW-W, intersected at NW by post-1700 field boundary running N-S and at S by a drain running NE-SW. Described by Westropp (1916-17, 22, 475, 494) as a ‘straight-sided fort’ and ‘is slightly irregular; the entrance is to the east, and fosse is deep and full of water to the south-east, but nearly obliterated, and marked by yellow “flaggers” (iris) to the north, though fairly preserved to the west. It is 5 feet [1.5m] deep at the last point, and the mound 12 feet [3.6m] high; the bank steep and perfect, 12 feet [3.6m] thick and 8 feet [2.4m] high; the corners very sharp; evidently, therefore, the stone facing was removed in comparatively recent times. The sides measure from corner to corner - the east 105 feet [32m], north 135 feet [41m], west 126 feet [38.4m], south 153 feet [46.6m], diagonally north-west and south-east 150 feet [45.7m]. Monument visible as rectangular-shaped area enclosed by a tree-lined bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 August 2021
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
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.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.