Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Fantstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fantstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.40539, -8.51986
- SMR number
- LI048-003----
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 reclaimed pasture 70m S of the townland boundary with Gibbonstown. Barrow (LI048-085----) lies 110m to N. Depicted as a circular-shaped enclosure on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area (diam c. 17m) defined by a scarp with external fosse. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area defined by a fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Cropmark of levelled earthwwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages where it is intersected at NE by drainage ditch running NE-SW.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 27 August 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.