id: ie-fanningstown-coshma-by-fanningstown
name: Fanningstown Castle
tradition: european_medieval
location:
  country: IE
  locality: Fanningstown (Coshma By.)
  county: Limerick
  lat: 52.54758
  lon: -8.73873
definitions_met:
  fortified_residence:
    verdict: contested
    assessment: assessed
    basis: 'CONTESTED between two registers. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland classes
      this Castle - tower house, which maps to this band. Wikidata (Q55050704), joined on
      the SMR identifier, classes it stately home, which maps to palatial_seat. The disagreement
      is about what kind of thing it is: a tower house standing within, or converted into,
      a later country seat. Recorded as contested rather than resolved to whichever register
      was imported first.'
register_entries:
- register: ie-smr
  ref: LI021-047----
  designation: Castle - tower house
  url: https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-047----
disputed: true
dispute_note: Irish SMR says Castle - tower house; Wikidata (Q55050704) says stately home.
  Both descriptions fit something real on the site. See the cross-register disagreement ledger.
first_seen: '2026-07-21'
last_updated: '2026-07-21'
confidence: medium
sources:
- url: https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI021-047----
  title: Archaeological Survey of Ireland - Sites and Monuments Record
  publisher: National Monuments Service
  date: '2026-07-21'
  note: Register entry; the sole source for this record.
signals:
- sig-20260721-iesmr-li021-047
notes: 'Imported in bulk from the Irish Sites and Monuments Record, then CORRECTED by the
  cross-register comparison: Wikidata disagrees about the band, so the verdict is contested
  rather than the register-derived yes the import produced. One register speaks and nothing
  corroborates it, hence confidence: low. Only fortified_residence carries a verdict; every
  other band is OMITTED rather than set to no. The register''s own finer class is kept on
  the register_entry, so the strict Anglo-Norman reading stays recoverable from the data without
  re-querying the service.'