Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Mitchelstowndown East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mitchelstowndown East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.40692, -8.38580
- SMR number
- LI049-022----
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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, 90m NE of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Mitchelstowndown. An enclosure (LI049-025----) lies 140m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified as potential site immediately E of a linear cropmark running N-S on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2578, Site 256) taken 03/11/1984. Monument visible as rectangular-shaped cropmark transected at SE by post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cropmark of rectangular shaped earthwork visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 342, 22) taken 05/01/2003.
See attached BGE aerial photograph, oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 12 September 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.