Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Fawnlehane, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fawnlehane
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated (1924)
- Coordinates
- 52.41663, -9.02298
- SMR number
- LI036-160----
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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 level pasture. Circular area (41.9m N-S; 42.6m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.95m) with an external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.7m). Break (Wth 3.2m) through bank at SSW was recently made. A field boundary runs N-S across fosse at WSW, along top of bank WSW->NW, and along outer line of fosse NW->ENE. A track, running NE-SW, skirts enclosure 8m to E. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/2 on 05/10/2002.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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