Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Roxborough Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Friarstown (clanwilliam By., Roxborough Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.59145, -8.60376
- SMR number
- LI013-240----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 lowlying pasture immediately E of a field boundary and 140m W of the Ahanload River, that marks the townland boundary with Raheen. Ringfort (LI013-160----) 50m to NE, second ringfort (LI013-202----) 60m to SE. Not depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or the 1897 OS 25-inch map. Identified from aerial photograph labelled Bruff 9 (AP 4/3749). No surface remains visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013.
See attached photocopy of Bruff Aerial Survey with Site 9 identified.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 3 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.