Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Anglesborough Ed), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyfauskeen (coshlea By., Anglesborough Ed)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1928)
- Coordinates
- 52.35811, -8.29435
- SMR number
- LI049-205----
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 140m W of the River Aherlow that marks the townland boundary with Inchacoomb. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform. Earthwork shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 20m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 18 October 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.