Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Briska More, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Briska More
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.61184, -8.73200
- SMR number
- LI012-051----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In elevated rocky pasture on slight NE-facing slope, 118m E of the townland boundary with Briska Beg. No surface remains visible of monument which according to landowner was levelled around the year 2000 (SMR File). The 1897 OS 25-inch map depicts the monument as a sub-circular shaped area (approx. int. dims. 39m N-S X 37m E-W; max. ext. diam. 55m N-S) enclosed by a bank (Wth 8m). Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 02/07/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 02/07/2018 and 19/11/2019
Compiled by: Fiona Rooney
Date of upload: 18 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.