Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fulacht fia
Ardshanbally, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardshanbally
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57437, -8.78912
- SMR number
- LI021-173----
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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 low-lying and wet, level pasture with a slight NW-facing slope, 120m SE of the River Maigue, which serves as a townland boundary with Islandea. Enclosure (LI021-143----) lies 70m to NE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping, although area of monument is flanked by a trackway running NW-SE on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Monument identified as a fulacht fiadh in the Adare Bypass Constraint Study (Ref. 51/A/7, P. 61-2). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 although it is not clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 10 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.