Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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 (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.57126, -8.61493
- SMR number
- LI022-036----
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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
Monument described in 1943 as following; 'This fort on plan is shaped like the long section of an egg, that is, oval with one end broad and the other narrow. It consists of a fosse inside which is a bank. The latter bears traces of a stone facing on the outside. The interior is a level space higher than the field outside. The entrance is near the broad end on the east side. There is a sloping causeway leading out across the fosse. Running north-south across the northern half of the interior is a very collapsed stone wall. Length 156' [47.5m]. Max. width 126' [38.4m] overall' (O'Kelly 1943, 226).
Described by Doody (2008, 131) as a 'oval enclosure, c. 50m x 40m'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.).
Compiled by: Denis Power
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 03 January 2019
References
Doody, M 2008 The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7. Wordwell. Bray.
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
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.