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
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58271, -8.59542
- SMR number
- LI022-238----
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
On a slight E-facing slope, in low, wet pasture, with moderate to restricted views in all directions. The Ahanload River lies 50m to E, which marks the townland boundary with Boherload. Enclosure (LI022-240----) 85m to W and ringfort (LI022-045----) 90m to W. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped cropmark on Bruff Survey aerial photographs (Bruff 50: AP4/3748). Monument surveyed in 2000 by the ASI and described as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13, although it is visible as a large oval-shaped cropmark (56m E-W; 50m N-S) on Google Earth orthoimages taken 25/05/2017.
See attached Bruff Survey aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimage
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 16 August 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.