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
- Indicated (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.34593, -8.28311
- SMR number
- LI057-065----
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 within the former demesne of Massy Lodge, located 500m to SE. Possible ringfort (LI057-036----) lies 220m to the NW. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OSi 6-inch map. Tree-ring depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 20m) with the interior planted with trees. Cropmark of circular-shaped tree-ring visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages.
Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick
Date of upload: 3 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.