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Ringfort - unclassified

Fanningstown (Coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Fanningstown, 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
Fanningstown (Coshma By.)
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1923)
Coordinates
52.55105, -8.74037
SMR number
LI021-046----

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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 level pasture, with moderate views in all directions. The site is located 240m E of the townland boundary with Castleroberts, 350m N of Fanningstown Castle (LI021-047----) and 200m WNW of enclosure (LI021-050----). It is depicted as a large tree lined circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 70m) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map with field boundaries extending from the site to the S and E. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval embanked enclosure (int. diam. c. 45m N-S; 49m E-W) surrounded by a bank and external fosse (ext. diam. c. 65m N-S; 68m E-W). Inspected by the ASI in 2000, and described as no surface remains visible. Known locally as a ‘fort’. The levelled enclosure is visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13, and on Google Earth orthophotos in 05/02/2009, 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020. The Google Earth image dating from 28/06/2018 shows the dry bank as a ring of scorched grass surrounded by the fosse, a circular feature (diam. c. 8m) is also visible outside the enclosure c. 12m to SE. The site is likely to be a ringfort.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan

Date of upload: 10 August 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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