Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Cullane Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Cullane Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.36471, -8.30297
- SMR number
- LI049-200----
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 pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, intersected at SE, S and SW by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 36m N-S; 37m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-W-N-NE, incorporated into a field boundary from SW-NW with a field boundary from NE-E-S-SW, and external fosse from SW-W-NW. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘five ancient forts’ in the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 308). No surface remains of levelled monument on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Faint cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 2 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.