Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ardshanbally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardshanbally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57479, -8.78779
- SMR number
- LI021-143----
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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 top of a steep W-facing break of slope, in pasture, 210m E of the River Maigue, with moderate to good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a small, irregular-shaped tree-planted area. Monument identified as a possible enclosure in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 31/A/1). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly circular-shaped rocky area (diam. 45m) with no definitive enclosing element. The ‘interior’ is planted with mature conifers, most of which have fallen. Possible monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-planted area at the SE edge of a small coppice, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. Of doubtful antiquity, probably the remains of a post-1700 tree plantation.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 July 2020
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.