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Moated site

Lackendarragh, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Lackendarragh, 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
Lackendarragh
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.33386, -8.28264
SMR number
LI057-040----

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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 pasture 30m W of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Anglesborough. Earthwork (LI057-041----) lies 220m to the E. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 27m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank. To immediate NE there is a raised rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 38m NW-SE; 34m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Truncated at SW and SE by roadway. Westropp described the monument as ‘two courts adjoining at one corner’ (1916/17, 22). Conjoined enclosures visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages as two rectangular shaped areas delimited by trees.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 20 November 2021

References

Westropp, T.J. 1916-17 On certain typical earthworks and ring walls in Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 33C, 9-42, 444-92.

Nearby in the register

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

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