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Moated site

Cullane South, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Cullane South, 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
Cullane South
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Carheen Fort, Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Cathairin - Hachured (1927)
Coordinates
52.31999, -8.36864
SMR number
LI057-055----

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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 145m S of well (LI057-056----). Annotated ‘Carheen fort’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a rectangular-shaped area defined by a scarp with lime-kiln in SW corner. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly square-shaped area (dims. c. 30m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank. Truncated at N and S by field boundary running N-S. Barry (1981, 84) listed the monument as a possible moated site. Outline of monument delimited by trees is visible 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

References

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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