Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Fort West, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fort West
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.38180, -8.75375
- SMR number
- LI046-030----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1883 · Ireland 3. (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
In wet pasture 310m N of the River Maigue that marks the townland boundary with Cloonmore. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible circular enclosure from oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP (370) 33). Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) surrounded by marshy ground on Google Earth orthoimage taken on 01/04/2021.
See attached ASIAP oblique aerial image and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 6 August 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rath1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.