Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Glenacurrane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glenacurrane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.30862, -8.27532
- SMR number
- LI057-064----
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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 420m E of the townland boundary with Coolnamohoge and 340m E of Glenacurrane woods. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 29m NE-SW; 27m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank from S-SW, incorporated into a field boundary from N-E-SE reduced to a scarp elsewhere. Truncated at W by local roadway running NE-SW. Identified as a possible moated site on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (Strip map 2, site 2/3) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a sub-rectangular area delimited by trees on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 10/10/2006. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 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.