Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
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
- 52.33199, -8.27633
- SMR number
- LI057-047----
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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 130m E of a roadway that marks the townland boundary with Lackendarragh. Fulacht fia (LI057-043----) lies 140m to NW. Not depicted on OSi maps. Truncated pits excavated in 1986 during works associated with the gas pipeline (Gowen 1988, 179). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 21 November 2021
References
Gowen, M. 1988 Three Irish gas pipelines: new archaeological evidence in Munster. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.