Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Anglesborough, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Anglesborough
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.33482, -8.27921
- SMR number
- LI057-041----
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 185m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Lackendarragh. Fulacht fia (LI057-042----) lies 85m to the NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible earthwork on Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline aerial photographs (BGE 1/5000; No. 2623; 057070) taken 03/11/1984. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Possible linear earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018.
See attached BGE orthoimage and Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 20 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.