Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Fanningstown (smallcounty By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fanningstown (smallcounty By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.58009, -8.60256
- SMR number
- LI022-043002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded that the ruins of Fanningstown Church (LI022-043002-) 'lie in the north side of the graveyard' (OSNB, 698-9). Present remains consist of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 32m N-S x 47m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall. Graveyard enclosing element depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map with curving boundary from N-E-SSE and elsewhere by a straight field boundary. The oldest memorial belongs of Denis Hogan who died in 1785 (O'Kelly 1943, 224).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 January 2019
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.