Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fanningstown (coshma By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanningstown (coshma By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.55036, -8.73663
- SMR number
- LI021-050----
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
On level pasture with moderate views in all directions, enclosure (LI021-046----) 200m to WNW and Fanningstown Castle (LI021-047----) 300m to SW. The enclosure is not shown on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and is first depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular embanked enclosure (ext. diam. 45m) surrounded by a wide fosse which only survives on the S and NW side , the E side of the site is truncated by a later field boundary. Site surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as largely levelled with very low relief remains visible. It consisted of a slightly raised circular area (int. diam. 22m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by a scarped edge. The scarped edge where the former fosse is located survived as a distinct slope from the edge of the interior of the monument down to the surrounding field surface (Wth 3.4m; D 0.2m). The ringfort is visible on Google Earth orthophotos taken 28/06/2018 and 14/02/2020.
See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan
Date of upload: 11 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.