Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Foxhall East, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Foxhall East
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.39237, -8.70853
- SMR number
- LI046-024----
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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 level, low-lying marshy pasture. Roughly square area (24.8m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank with shallow external fosse (D 0.25m). Bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1m) , heavily masked by vegetation cover NW->E, best preserved SSW->W. Corner at W is much denuded and possibly quarried out in external bank face. Fosse (Wth 1.2m) best preserved SSW->W. Level marshy interior covered with briars over N third.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.