Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Anglesborough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anglesborough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34305, -8.28552
- SMR number
- LI057-038----
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, within the former demesne of Massy Lodge located 500m to E. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an un-enclosed circle of trees. Identified as a possible ring-barrow on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; 2619) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. No antiquity depicted at this location on any ed. OSi maps.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 5 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.