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Moated site

Glenacurrane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Glenacurrane, 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
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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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 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.

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Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 9 November 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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