Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Lackendarragh, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackendarragh
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.33188, -8.28894
- SMR number
- LI057-037----
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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 immediately S of a watercourse. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 38m NE-SW; 36m NW-SE) defined by a scarp, intersected at SE by a field drain running NE-SW. Identified as a possible moated site on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (Strip map 2, site 2/7) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a rectangular cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.