Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Faha Demesne, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Faha Demesne
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.60183, -8.72912
- SMR number
- LI012-082----
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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 pasture on slight NE facing slope, on demesne lands of Faha House located 525m to NNE. Depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map as a grove of trees adjacent to a roadway leading to Faha House and not as an antiquity. On this map the earthwork is shown as a roughly circular-shaped area indicated by a solid line in the same fashion as the surrounding field boundaries. Depicted as a circular-shaped earthwork (approx. diam. 28m) and not as an antiquity on the OS 25-inch map. No surface remains visible today of levelled earthwork on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020. Possible designed landscape feature associated with Faha House.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date upload: 22 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.