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Moated site

Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Mitchelstowndown North, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Mitchelstowndown North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41380, -8.40883
SMR number
LI049-002----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 reclaimed pasture 120m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Mitchelstown West. Possible barrow (LI049-003----) lies 130m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible moated site during examination of Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000 2573 Site No. 4/15A) taken 03/11/1984, where it is visible as a large rectangular-shaped area divided into two quadrants by a fosse running E-W and a farm trackway. Visible as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 53m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of levelled rectangular-shaped area visible on Google Earth orthoimages.

See attached Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photograph (BGE 2573) and Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 8 September 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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