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Moated site

Duntryleague, County Limerick, Ireland

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Townland
Duntryleague
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1928)
Coordinates
52.40816, -8.34317
SMR number
LI049-066----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, a barrow (LI049-224----) lies 95m to the SE and an enclosure (LI049-254----) lies 90m to the NE. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised rectangular-shaped area defined by a scarp with fosse. Monument visible as a roughly square-shaped cropmark (dims. c. 35m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. A relic watercourse running NW-SE truncates the monument at NW. Possible moated site (Barry 1981, 84, site 16).

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Compiled by: Fiona Rooney

Date of upload: 28 September 2021

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

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

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