Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Anglesborough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anglesborough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.34434, -8.30212
- SMR number
- LI057-035----
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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 wet pasture on the E bank of the River Aherlow that marks the townland boundary with Ballyduff. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 53m NW-SE; 44m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank from W-N reduced to a scarp elsewhere with external fosse from N- E. A D-Shaped area (dims. 30m E-W; 23m N-S) lies to immediate NW. Identified as a possible ringfort on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (Strip map 2, site 2/10) taken 03/11/1984. Visible as a tree covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 9 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.