What is recorded here
Knockaunmacoomsa Moat is a levelled mound in County Limerick pasture, reduced to a slight bulge along a field boundary near Ballingaddy South. It appeared as a raised oval measuring about eleven by seven metres on the 1897 map, suggesting a deliberate shape now hidden beneath grass and traffic. The nearby holy well implies the mound still belongs to a landscape of memory, even if its original purpose has faded from local sight.
In pasture 30m S of a road that marks the townland boundary with Ballingaddy South. Holy Well (LI047-055----) lies 170m to W. Annotated ‘Knockaunmacoomsa Moat’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 11m NW-SE; 7m NE-SW) topped by a field boundary from SE-NW. Trace of levelled monument visible as a slight bulge in the field boundary visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 18 August 2021
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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