Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Brittas, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.60163, -8.41304
- SMR number
- LI014-135----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On reclaimed grassland. Cropmark of roughly oval-shaped earthwork visible on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 118 (17) ) taken 23/08/2000. Outline of earthwork (diam. c. 44m) visible on OSi orthoimage and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Outline of oval-shaped area defined by a fosse clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages.
See attached ASIAP aerial photograph taken 23/08/2000 and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 November 2021
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.