Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Fanningstown (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanningstown (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured - Indicated (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.56980, -8.62058
- SMR number
- LI022-032----
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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 pasture, 123m NW of a stream that marks townland boundary with Garryellen and 127m SE of townland boundary with Badgerfort. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped area enclosed by a bank with post-1700 field boundary radiating out from S, SE and E of monument. Indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch map as a sub-circular area (dims. int. 17m N-S; 18m E-W; ext. 32m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by a bank from W to SE and incorporated in a post-1700 field boundary at SE through S to WSW, post-1700 field boundaries adjoin monument at W, S and SE. Google Earth orthoimages shows the monument has been levelled with original bank incorporated into field boundary from S to W.
Levelled monument listed by O'Kelly (1943, 226) as a 'stone fort' and described as: 'a circular structure with a stone faced earthen bank now very collapsed. The entrance is not recognisable. Overall diameter 120' [36m]. Situated in rich low-land'.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 28 July 2020
References
O'Kelly, M.J. 1942-3 A survey of the antiquities in the barony of Small County, Co. Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 3, 75-97, 169-84, 222-46.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.