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Ringfort - cashel

Fanningstown (Smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - cashel, 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 (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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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 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'.

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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