Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Ballymacshaneboy, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacshaneboy
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.33979, -8.60966
- SMR number
- LI055-012----
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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 wet pasture, on a slight S-facing slope. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as two sub- rectangular shaped areas defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised square-shaped area defined by a scarp. Surveyed in 1999 and described as a slightly raised sub-circular shaped area (dims. 25m N-S; 34m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.4m) and external bank (Overall Wth 5.1m; int. H 1m; ext. D 0.8m) with intervening fosse (base Wth 3.9m) from S-W-NW. A field boundary running NW-SE truncates the NE half of the site and no surface trace visible at E. A modern cattle break (Wth 1m) visible at NW. Monument visible as square-shaped area enclosed by a tree lined fosse and bank on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 16 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 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.