Moated site in Ballinruane, County Limerick

What is recorded here

In low-lying level pasture, on W side of stream. Roughly rectangular area (39m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.15m) with external fosse (D 0.45m; Base Wth 1.4m). On E side enclosing element obscured by material dumped from re-cutting of stream. On S side fosse largely filled-in and recent drain cut along its outer edge. On N side enclosing bank only barely perceptible.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI045-014

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Harold Strong, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Garry Dickinson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Created by Kglavin Modified Aug 2007 by Mike Christie, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jonathan Thacker, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Speckled Bird, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0