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Ringfort - unclassified

Farnane, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Farnane, 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
Farnane
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1938)
Coordinates
52.64755, -8.42307
SMR number
LI006-056----

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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 grassland, in SE corner of field 130m E of townland boundary with Toberagarriff. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with transected at S and E by post-1700 field boundaries. This map depicts Farnane House 300m to E with a separate tree lined avenue running S from the R506 for a distance of 175m. The avenue stops 55m to N of the enclosure. The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts a raised circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m) defined by a scarp. Digital Globe aerial photography taken 2011-13 shows the outline of the enclosure in the SE corner of the field with a number of gaps particularly at N. Outline of poorly preserved monument visible Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. On this image than enclosing bank is visible from E through S to SSW with the remainder of the enclosing element denuded and large gaps visible at N and NE. Could have been a ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature of the lands surrounding Farnane House. Alternatively it may be the remains of a post-1700 tree-ring contemporaneous with Farnane House.

See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 10 June 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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